Panama Ceety
Panama Ceety | |
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Ceety | |
| Panamá | |
 Top tae bottom, left tae richt: Panama Canal, Skyline, Brig o the Americaes, The bovedas, Casco Viejo o Panama an Metropolitan Cathedral o Panama. | |
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  Panama Ceety | |
| Coordinates: 8°59′N 79°31′W / 8.983°N 79.517°W | |
| Kintra | Panama |
| Province | Panamá |
| Destrict | Panama |
| Foondation | August 15, 1519 |
| Foondit bi | Pedro Arias de Ávila |
| Govrenment | |
| • Mayor | Roxana Méndez |
| Area | |
| • Ceety | 275 km2 (106 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 2560.8 km2 (988.7 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 2 m (7 ft) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Ceety | 880,691 |
| • Density | 2750/km2 (7656/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 1,272,672 |
| HDI (2007) | 0.780 – high[1] |
| Website | www.municipio.gob.pa |
Panama (Spaingie: Panamá) is the caipital an lairgest ceety o the Republic o Panama. It haes a population o 439,642, wi a tot metro population o 1,272,599, an it is locatit at the Paceefic entrance o the Panama Canal, at 8°58′N 79°32′W / 8.967°N 79.533°W. The ceety is the poleetical an administrative centre o the kintra, an a hub for internaitional bankin an commerce.[2] It is considered a Gamma Warld Ceety.[3]
Wi an average GDP per capita o US$11,700,[4] Panama haes been amang the tap five places for retirement in the warld, accordin tae the Internaitional Living magazine. Panama Ceety haes a dense skyline o maistly heichhrise biggins, an it is surroondit bi a lairge belt o tropical rainforest. It haes an advanced communications service, Internet uise is widespread; an Panama's Tocumen International Airport, the biggest an busiest airport o Central Americae, affers daily flichts tae major internaitional destinations.
Panama Ceety wis chosen tae be the American Caipital o Cultur for the year 2003 (jointly, wi Curitiba, Brazil).
History
[eedit | eedit soorce]Panama wis foondit on August 15, 1519, bi the Spainyie conquistador Pedro Arias de Ávila. The ceety wis the stairtin pynt o expeditions that conquered the Inca Empire in Peru (1532). It wis a stopower pynt o ane o the maist important trade routes in the history o the American continent leadin tae the fairs o Nombre de Dios an Portobelo, whaur maist o the gowd an siller that Spain teuk frae the Americas passed throu.[5] The ceety wis destroyed bi a devastatin fire, when the pirate Henry Morgan sacked it on Januar 28, 1671. It wis rebuilt an formally established on Januar 21, 1673, in a peninsula locatit 8 km frae the oreeginal dounset. The place whaur the previously devastatit ceety wis locatit is still in ruins, an haes acome a tourist attraction kent as "Panama Viejo".
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "Informe de Desarrollo Humano en Panamá" (in Spanish). 2007. Archived frae the original on 3 November 2013. Retrieved 7 September 2010.CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link)
- ↑ "Investing in Panama". BussinesPanama.com. Archived frae the original on 9 December 2010. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
- ↑ www.lboro.ac.uk The World According to GaWC 2008 – Retrieved on 2010-10-10
- ↑ "Panama GDP - per capita (PPP) - Economy". Indexmundi.com. 19 Februar 2010. Retrieved 26 Juin 2010.
- ↑ "World Heritage Site". "World Heritage Site". 17 Februar 2010. Archived frae the original on 8 Mairch 2009. Retrieved 26 Juin 2010.
Freemit airtins
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Offeecial wabsteid for Panama Ceety Archived 2011-02-25 at the Wayback Machine
- Offeecial wabsteid for Panama's Tourism Bureau
Coordinates: 8°59′N 79°31′W / 8.983°N 79.517°W
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