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Sobiaquirú ("Good Heart" in the local Emberá dialect)Bethancourt, Grisel (21 April 2007)
Desamparo que mata
''Panamá América''
is an Embera village in
Darién Province Darién (, ; ) is a Provinces of Panama, province in Panama whose capital city is La Palma, Darién, La Palma. With an area of , it is located at the eastern end of the country and bordered to the north by the province of Panamá Province, Panam ...
,
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 ...
. It is located along the
Tuira River The Tuira River is located in the Darién Province of eastern Panama. It flows into the Bay of San Miguel, Panama, Bay of San Miguel at the province capital of La Palma, Panama, La Palma. It is the largest river in Panama, and one of its tribu ...
upstream of the village of
Boca de Cupe Boca de Cupé is a corregimiento in Pinogana District, Darién Province, Panama with a population of 1,167 as of 2010. Its population as of 1990 was 901; its population as of 2000 was 902. The town is not served by any paved roads, with the P ...
, and within the
corregimiento ''Corregimiento'' (; , ) is a Spanish term used for country subdivisions for royal administrative purposes, ensuring districts were under crown control as opposed to local elites. A ''corregimiento'' was usually headed by a '' corregidor''. The ...
of that same name. It is not served by any paved roads.(1 August 2018)
Panama’s indigenous groups take land fight to the international stage
''Mongabay'' (photo caption: "Dawn on the Tuira River, near the Embera village of Sobiaquiru Panama, a few miles from the border with Colombia.")
(1 March 2018)
ARAP participa de Gira Interinstitucional en Sobiaquirú, provincia de Darién
La Autoridad de Recursos Acuáticos de Panamá (Translated sentence from Spanish: "The place of destination was the indigenous population of Sobiaquirú located in Alto Tuira of the Corregimiento of Boca de Cupe, province of Darién.")
It is about a nine hour boat ride from
Yaviza Yaviza is a town and corregimiento in Pinogana District, Darién Province, Panama with a population of 4,441 as of 2010. Location The town marks the southeastern end of the northern half of the Pan-American Highway, at the north end of the D ...
.(20 April 2007)
Darién, abandonada
'' La Prensa'' (in Spanish) (Translated excerpt: "Getting to the Sobiaquirú community, in the province of Darién, takes nine hours by boat from Yaviza; there are no doctors and food is scarce.")
A 2007 news report stated that the village had 243 residents.


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Populated places in Darién Province Road-inaccessible communities of Panama {{Darién-geo-stub