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Over 300,000 migrants crossed the Darien Gap into Panama in 2024, 42% fewer than the record number who made the perilous jungle crossing from South America a year earlier, Panama's migration ...
The Darien Gap earned its name because it is the break in the Pan-American Highway connecting South and North America. Darien is also the name of Panama’s easternmost province, which abuts Colombia.
Between January and Sept. 25, 259,712 migrants arrived in Panama through the Darien, a 35% decrease compared with the same period in 2023, Alexis de Gracia, head of the National Border Service's ...
The Darién Gap and the break in the Pan-American Highway between Yaviza, Panama, and Turbo, Colombia. The Colombia–Panama border is the 339-kilometer-long (211 mi) international boundary between Colombia and Panama. [1] It also splits the Darién Gap, a break across the North American and South American continents.
The border with Panama is the smallest in Colombia's continental territory, with a total of 266 km (165 mi), covering the entire territory between the Cocalito and Ardita points, in the Pacific Ocean, and Cabo Tiburón in the Caribbean Sea.
The continent is delimited on the southeast by most geographers at the Darién watershed along the Colombia-Panama border, placing all of Panama within North America. [2] [3] [4] Alternatively, a less common view would end North America at the man-made Panama Canal.
The United States is going to pay for flights and offer other help to Panama to remove migrants under an agreement signed Monday, as the Central American country's new president has vowed to shut ...
Panama and Costa Rica announced a plan to quickly bus thousands of migrants through Panama to the Costa Rican border, as the countries continue to grapple with a steady increase in the number of ...