Panama Country Guide - Chiriqui
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The province of Chiriqui is located at the west of the Republic of Panama, to the
north the province of Bocas del Toro and the Ngobe Bugle Reserve, to the west the
Republic of Costa Rica, to the east the province of Veraguas and to the south the
Pacific Ocean.
It has a surface of 6.476,2 km2, with a population of 368,790 (2000) who occupy
87.509 houses. Politically it is divided in 13 districts: Alanje, Barú, Boquerón,
Boquete, Bugaba, David, Dolega, Gualaca, Remedios, Renacimiento, San Lorenzo, San
Felix and Tolé.
Chiriquí was populated, until the arrival of the Spanish, by different indigenous
tribes (changuinas, zurias, boquerones, buricas, doraces, bugabas and gualacas)
grouped under the generic name of guaymíes.
Its discovery attributes to the Spanish Gaspar de Espinosa, in 1519, being created
the province the 26 of May of 1849, during the time at which Panama comprised of
Colombia.
Its economy is based mainly on the agricultural and cattle production, being the
main food suppliers for the rest of the Republic.
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