Veraguas

Veraguas is a province of Panama. The capital is the city of Santiago de Veraguas.

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The province is divided into 12 districts.

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District (Capital)

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• Atalaya (Atalaya)
• Calobre (Calobre)
• Ca?azas (Ca?azas)
• La Mesa (La Mesa)
• Las Palmas (Las Palmas)
• Montijo (Montijo)
• R?o de Jes?s (R?o de Jes?s)
• San Francisco (San Francisco)
• Santa F? (Santa F?)
• Santiago (Santiago de Veraguas)
• Son? (Son?)
• Mariato (Mariato)

The province of Veraguas is located to Central-West of the Republic of Panama. It has 10,677.2 km?; and is divided in twelve districts.

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Its capital Santiago de Veraguas was founded in 1636.

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It is said that its name comes from the indigenous word Veracua or Viragua. It is the only province in Panama to be bathed by both the carribean sea and the pacific ocean.

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Veraguas, has many groups of inhabitants, mainly of Spanish-Indian origin named campesinos. This land offers tourists and visitors close contact with nature. Forests, mountains, coasts and islands where there are more than 200 varieties of orchids; more than 400 species of birds, besides mammals, reptiles and insects.

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Beaches such as Playa Santa Catalina, Playa Mariato, Malena and Torio offer great places for recreation, surfing and fishing.

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Veraguas has various national parks. The Coiba National Park, (with the largest coral reef of the Pacific Coast of America), Cerro Hoya National Park (covers the southwest part of the Azuero pen?nsula and the sea that sorrounds it), Santa Fe National Park (a wonderful virgin forest in the northern region of the province), La Yeguada Forest reserve (with a great artificial lake for the production of electricity)and El Montuoso Forest reserve.

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Province: This article is about political regions. See geologic province for geological meanings....

Panama: Panama (Spanish: Panam?) is the southernmost country of Central America. It constitutes the last part of a natural land bridge between the North American and South American continents. It borders Costa Rica to the west and Colombia to the east....

Santiago de Veraguas: Santiago de Veraguas is the capital of the Panamanian province Veraguas. Santiago is located in southern Veraguas near the provincial border with Herrera....