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Narganá Wilderness Area
Nargana Wilderness Area is a reserve in Guna Yala, Panama run by the Guna people. The reserve extends from the Caribbean Sea coast to the crest of the Cordillera de San Blas, which forms part of the Continental Divide of the Americas. It borders Chagres National Park on the west. Lowland evergreen rain forest grows in the coastal lowlands, with submontane evergreen forest above 500 meters elevation and cloud forest on the highest-elevation ridges. It is known for its bird watching opportunities and is home to black-crowned antpitta, speckled antshrike, and red-throated caracara. by Sarah Woods page 43 See also *Protected areas of Panama
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Guna Yala
Guna Yala, also known as Kuna Yala or by its former name San Blas, is a ''Comarca#Panama, comarca indígena'' (indigenous province) in northeast Panama. Guna Yala is home to the indigenous people known as the Guna people, Gunas. Its capital is Gaigirgordub, Guna Yala, Gaigirgordub. It is bounded on the north by the Caribbean Sea, on the south by the Darién Province and Comarca Emberá-Wounaan, Emberá-Wounaan, on the east by Colombia, and on the west by the province of Colón Province, Colón. 32,016 people lived here in 2023, with over 95% of them being Indigenous peoples of Panama, indigenous peoples. Etymology Guna Yala in Guna language, Guna means "Land Guna" or "Guna Mountain". The area was formerly known as San Blas, and later as Kuna Yala, but the name was changed in October 2011 to "Guna Yala" when the Government of Panama recognized the claim of the people that "Guna" was a closer representation of the name. History The area was the site of the conquistador st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panama
Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America. It is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the south. Its capital and largest city is Panama City, whose metropolitan area is home to nearly half of the country's over million inhabitants. Before the arrival of Spanish Empire, Spanish colonists in the 16th century, Panama was inhabited by a number of different Indigenous peoples of Panama, indigenous tribes. It Independence Act of Panama, broke away from Spain in 1821 and joined the Republic of Gran Colombia, a union of Viceroyalty of New Granada, Nueva Granada, Ecuador, and Venezuela. After Gran Colombia dissolved in 1831, Panama and Nueva Granada eventually became the Republic of Colombia. With the backing of the United States, Panama seceded from Colombia in 1903, allowing the construction of the Panama Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guna People
The Guna (also spelled Kuna or Cuna) are an Indigenous people of Panama and Colombia. Guna people live in three politically autonomous '' comarcas'' or autonomous reservations in Panama, and in a few small villages in Colombia. There are also communities of Guna people in Panama City, Colón, and other cities. Most Guna live on small islands off the coast of the comarca of Guna Yala known as the San Blas Islands. The other two Guna comarcas in Panama are Kuna de Madugandí and Kuna de Wargandí. They are Guna-speaking people who once occupied the central region of what is now Panama and the neighboring San Blas Islands and still survive in marginal areas. In the Guna language, they call themselves ''Dule'' or ''Tule'', meaning "people", and the name of the language is ''Dulegaya'', literally "people-mouth". The term was in the language itself spelled ''Kuna'' prior to a 2010 orthographic reform, but the Congreso General de la Nación Gunadule since 2010 has promoted the spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere, located south of the Gulf of Mexico and southwest of the Sargasso Sea. It is bounded by the Greater Antilles to the north from Cuba to Puerto Rico, the Lesser Antilles to the east from the Virgin Islands to Trinidad and Tobago, South America to the south from the Venezuela, Venezuelan coastline to the Colombia, Colombian coastline, and Central America and the Yucatán Peninsula to the west from Panama to Mexico. The Geopolitics, geopolitical region around the Caribbean Sea, including the numerous islands of the West Indies and adjacent coastal areas in the mainland of the Americas, is known as the Caribbean. The Caribbean Sea is one of the largest seas on Earth and has an area of about . The sea's deepest point is the Cayman Trough, between the Cayman Islands and Jamaica, at below sea level. The Caribbean coastline has many gulfs and bays: the Gulf of Gonâve, the Gul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cordillera De San Blas
The San Blas Range (Spanish: Cordillera de San Blas or Serranía de San Blas) is a mountain range in eastern Panama. It extends east and west parallel to the Caribbean coast south of the San Blas Islands. The range is part of the Continental Divide of the Americas. The north slope is drained by numerous short rivers which drain into the Caribbean, while the southern slope is drained by the Bayano River, which empties into the Pacific Ocean. The San Blas Range adjoins the Chagres Highlands on the west. The divide continues to the southeast as the Serranía del Darién.Palka, E.J. (2005). A Geographic Overview of Panama. In: Harmon, R.S. (eds) The Río Chagres, Panama. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 52. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3297-8_1James A. Kushlan, George R. Angehr, and Kirsten Hines. Seabirds and other colonial waterbirds of the Caribbean coast of Panama. ''Journal of Caribbean Ornithology'', Vol. 30 No. 2 (2017). DOI: https://doi.org/10.55 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Continental Divide Of The Americas
The Continental Divide of the Americas (also known as the Great Divide, the Western Divide or simply the Continental Divide; ) is the principal, and largely mountainous, hydrological divide of the Americas. The Continental Divide extends from the Bering Strait to the Strait of Magellan, and separates the watersheds that drain into the Pacific Ocean from those river systems that drain into the Atlantic and Arctic Ocean, including those that drain into the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, and Hudson Bay. Although there are many other hydrological divides in the Americas, the Continental Divide is by far the most prominent of these because it tends to follow a line of high peaks along the main ranges of the Rocky Mountains and Andes, at a generally much higher elevation than the other hydrological divisions. Geography Beginning at the westernmost point of the Americas, Cape Prince of Wales, just south of the Arctic Circle, the Continental Divide's geographic path runs th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chagres National Park
Chagres National Park is a nature park and protected area created in 1986 located in the Panamá and Colón provinces, in the Eastern sector of the Panama Canal with a total surface area of . The park extends across the Chagres Highlands, a group of low mountains drained by the headwaters of the Chagres River. The southern portion of the highlands is known as the Serranía Piedras-Pacora, and forms a portion of the Continental Divide of the Americas.Charles W. Myers, Roberto Ibáñez D., Taran Grant, César A. Jaramillo "Discovery of the Frog Genus Anomaloglossus in Panama, with Descriptions of Two New Species from the Chagres Highlands (Dendrobatoidea: Aromobatidae)," American Museum Novitates, 2012(3763), 1-19, (21 November 2012) The park adjoins Portobelo National Park on the northwest, and Narganá Wilderness Area on the east. Environment The park contains tropical rain forests and a set of rivers which provide sufficient water to guarantee the operation of the Gatun Lake, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BirdLife International
BirdLife International is a global partnership of non-governmental organizations that strives to conserve birds and their habitats. BirdLife International's priorities include preventing extinction of bird species, identifying and safeguarding important sites for birds, maintaining and restoring key bird habitats, and empowering conservationists worldwide. It has a membership of more than 2.5 million people across List of BirdLife International national partner organisations, 116 country partner organizations, including the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, the Wild Bird Society of Japan, the National Audubon Society, and American Bird Conservancy. BirdLife International has identified 13,000 Important Bird Area, Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas and is the official International Union for Conservation of Nature's IUCN Red List, Red List authority for birds. BirdLife International has established that 1,375 bird species (13% of the total) are threatened with extinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bird Watching
Birdwatching, or birding, is the observing of birds, either as a recreational activity or as a form of citizen science. A birdwatcher may observe by using their naked eye, by using a visual enhancement device such as binoculars or a telescope, by listening for bird sounds, watching public webcams, or by viewing smart bird feeder cameras. Most birdwatchers pursue this activity for recreational or social reasons, unlike ornithologists, who engage in the study of birds using formal scientific methods. Birding, birdwatching, and twitching The first recorded use of the term ''birdwatcher'' was in 1712 by William Oldsworth. The term ''birding'' was also used for the practice of ''fowling'' or hunting with firearms as in Shakespeare's '' The Merry Wives of Windsor'' (1602): "She laments sir... her husband goes this morning a-birding." The terms ''birding'' and ''birdwatching'' are today used by some interchangeably, although some participants prefer ''birding'', partly because ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black-crowned Antpitta
The black-crowned antpitta (''Pittasoma michleri'') is a species of bird in the gnateater family, Conopophagidae. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, and Panama. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist foothill forests. Taxonomy and systematics The black-crowned antpitta is one of two species in the genus ''Pittasoma''. They are not in the antpitta family (Antpitta, Grallaridae). It was formerly placed in the antthrush family (Formicariidae) before being included in the antpitta family when it was split from the antthrushes. They were reclassified and placed in the family Conopophagidae based on DNA evidence. This placement is further supported by Morphology (biology), morphology, vocalisations and traits in their natural history. The generic name ''Pittasoma'' comes from the genus ''Pitta (genus), Pitta'' and the Greek language, Greek sōma, meaning "body". The specific name is in honor of Brigadier general (United States), Brigadier-General Nathaniel Michler. Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speckled Antshrike
The speckled antshrike or spiny-faced antshrikeClements, J. F., P.C. Rasmussen, T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, A. Spencer, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2023. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2023. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/ retrieved October 28, 2023 (''Xenornis setifrons'') is a Near Threatened species of bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". It is found in Colombia and Panama. Taxonomy and systematics The speckled antshrike is the only member of genus ''Xenornis'' and has no subspecies. It appears to be most closely related to the four antshrikes of genus '' Thamnomanes''.Remsen, J. V., Jr., J. I. Areta, E. Bonaccorso, S. Claramunt, G. Del-Rio, A. Jaramillo, D. F. Lane, M. B. Robbins, F. G. Stiles, and K. J. Zimmer. Version 4 March 2024. A classification of the bird species of South America. American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
