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A country named after fish that lets two oceans skip the trip around a continent.
means A narrow country in Central America connecting North and South America, famous for its canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; also the lightweight straw hat and the type of fine canvas weave.
from From the name of the country, which the Spanish took from an Indigenous (likely Cuna or related) word — the popular story is that it meant 'place of abundant fish' or 'many butterflies,' though the precise sense is genuinely uncertain. The hat got its misleading name because the lightweight straw toppers, actually woven in Ecuador, were shipped through Panama and bought by gold-rush travelers and canal workers passing through — so the world named the hat for its layover, not its home.
- name origin
- Possibly meant abundance of fish in indigenous tongue
- two coasts
- Sun rises over Pacific, sets over Atlantic
- hat lie
- Panama hats are actually made in Ecuador
- canal toll
- Ships have paid up to half a million dollars
- bridge of americas
- Thin land connects two entire continents
panama canal — artificial waterway connecting atlantic and pacific oceans, opened 1914, handles ~6% of global maritime trade
panama city — capital city with distinctive skyline of modern skyscrapers, population ~880,000
san blas islands — archipelago of ~365 islands off caribbean coast, inhabited by guna indigenous people with autonomous governance