Nice Live Inn Panama » Provinces of Panama http://niceliveinnpanama.com Pro Mundi Beneficio (for the benefit of the world) Thu, 19 May 2011 00:33:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Provinces and Regions of Panama http://niceliveinnpanama.com/2009/06/provinces-and-regions-of-panama/ http://niceliveinnpanama.com/2009/06/provinces-and-regions-of-panama/#comments Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:58:12 +0000 gfmstudio http://niceliveinnpanama.com/?p=76 Panama is divided into nine provinces (Spanish: provincias) and three provinciallevel indigenous regions (Spanish: comarcas indígenas, often foreshortened to comarcas). There are two further comarcas within provinces that are considered equivalent to a corregimiento (municipality).
The nine provinces are:

Province Capital
Bocas del Toro Bocas del Toro
Chiriquí David
Coclé Penonomé
Colón Colón
Darién La Palma
Herrera Chitré
Los Santos Las Tablas
Panamá Panamá
Veraguas Santiago de Veraguas

The three provincial-level comarcas (indicated by shading on the map above) are:

Comara Capital
Emberá Union Choco
Kuna Yala El Porvenir
Ngöbe-Buglé Chichica

The two sub-provincial comarcas are:

Comarca Province
Kuna de Madugandí Panamá
Kuna de Wargandí Darién

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