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Darien National Park

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Darien National Park
Darien National Park
Darien National Park
Darien National Park
Darien National Park
Darien National Park
Darien National Park
Darien National Park
Darien National Park
Darien National Park
Darien National Park
Darien National Park
Darien National Park
Darien National Park
Darien National Park
Darien National Park
Darien National Park
Darien National Park
Darien National Park
Darien National Park
Darien National Park
Darien National Park
Darien National Park
Darien National Park
Phone:
+507 6655-0984

Address:
Province of Darien, Panama

The Darién Gap is a break in the Pan-American Highway consisting of a large swath of undeveloped swampland and forest within Panama's Darién Province in Central America and the northern portion of Colombia's Chocó Department in South America. The gap begins in Yaviza, Panama and ends in Turbo, Colombia, and is 106 km long. Roadbuilding through this area is expensive and the environmental cost is high. Political consensus in favor of road construction has not emerged. The geography of the Darién Gap on the Colombian side is dominated primarily by the river delta of the Atrato River, which creates a flat marshland at least 80 km wide, half of this being swampland. The Serranía del Baudó range extends along Colombia's Pacific coast and extends into Panama. The Panamanian side, in sharp contrast, is a mountainous rainforest, with terrain reaching from 60 m in the valley floors to 1,845 m at the tallest peak .
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