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Title: Panama

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Panama

By Greyson and Maja

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Location

The latitude and longitude of Panama is 9 N and
80W.

The Oceans or Seas located around Panama are the
Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean.
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Place

The climate of Panama is warm because of its
range toward the equator.
The lowlands are normally 80F all year round.
There is a small amount of volcanic action. It is
also a mountainous country.
Some of their main crops are corn, coffee, beans,
bananas, tobacco, and sugarcane.
Two of their common trees are the palm tree and
the date tree.

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Place

Population- 3 million inhabitants are in the area
of Panama.
Some of the wildlife in Panama are cougars,
flamingos, porcupines, and monkeys.
Their main language is Spanish. They have 4 major
cities such as Panama City, San Miguelito, David,
and Tocumen.
One attraction is the Darien National Park. It is
a place where people can go hiking and bird
watching.

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Human Environment Relationships

Some of Panamas natural resources are fertile
soil, copper, iron, shrimp, and pearls oysters.
Agriculture declined when the Panama Canal was
built. Shoemaking is a main industry.
Some other jobs are farming, and fishing.

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Human Environment Relationships

Dr. Manuel Amador Guerrero- He was the first
President of Panama in 1904. He was also born in
1833 and died in 1909.
Rodney Cline Carew-A famous baseball player who
was born in 1945 and died in 1996.
Ruben Blades-Was a singer and actor who was born
in 1948.

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Movement

A few of their transportation services are
trains, boats, airplanes, and cars.
One of their traditions in the Kuna tribe is to
put black stripes over their noses to keep away
bad spirits. Another tradition is that they make
a scarecrow a couple of weeks before the new
year. They burn it on New Years. They do this to
welcome the new year.
Their communications are phones, radios, and the
internet.
There is a lot immigration into Panama because
people want to sell things to tourists as their
job. There is not that much migration.

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Region

Government- The chief of state is the president.
Constitutional Democracy is their republic. The
money that they use are U.S. dollar bills, but
the coins they use are Panamanian.
The north of Panama is cut off by Costa Rica and
the south is cut off by Colombia.
Some of the ethnic groups include Chinese,
Native Americans, East Indians, Panamanian, and
the Europeans. They also have local tribes and
Panamanian ethnic groups.
Different religious groups are the Roman
Catholic, Islam, and The Church of the Black
Christ.

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Sports

A few of the sports they play in Panama are
football, which is called soccer in the U.S,
tennis, rugby, and golf.

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Food

Favorite foods in Panama are sopa borracha, corn,
beans, and seafood. They have a wide variety
besides!

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Music

Some of the music that Panamanians listen to are
rock, jazz, mambo, and salsa music.

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The Kuna
The Kuna are an indian tribe in Panama. The
women wear winis, patterned beads, around their
wrists and ankles. The women also wear the molas
that they sew as their dowry. The kids of the
Kuna are greatly taken care of. They live in
little villages on an island of Panama.
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Quiz!