Step and bridge
of the diverse cultures of the North, the South and the Caribbean.

The settlement of
The Isthmus of Panama occurred between 11,000 and 10,000 BC.

HUNTING, COLLECTION AND FISHING (10,000 to 3,000 a.C.).

The first inhabitants settled in the Panamanian isthmus approximately
about 11,000 years

For the arrival of the Spaniards, the population of the isthmus would be between 600 thousand to one million inhabitants

In the area known today as central provinces, caciques distinguished themselves. Corner, Urraca, Paris, Escoria, Natá and Chirú, as well as other extinct towns such as the Chánguenas, Doraces and Zuríes.

Five -bribris (immigrants during the 20th century), ngöbés (guaymíes, "moveres"), buglés, ("bokotás", "sabaneros"), tiribies ("teribes / térrabas"), and tulles ("khablan languages ​​that belong to the Chibchense Lineage of the Paya-Chibcha Filo.
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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. Tradition suggests that he was born in the Republic of Genoa, the son of a wool carder. Knower of the narrations of MARCO POLO

At dawn on Friday, October 12, 1492, a crew member of "La Pinta", called RODRIGO SÁNCHEZ DE TRIANA, gave the expected cry of "! TIERRA!". It is believed that the first lands visited by the Spaniards were the islands that the natives called Guanahaní (the current Watling), which COLÓN baptized as San Salvador.

COLON continued its journey through other islands today are the Bahamas, Cuba and Hispaniola, in whose waters the Santa María.

Third trip, when he arrived in Hispaniola, the governor appointed by the Crown, FRANCISCO BOBADILLA, made his residency process, and in chains, he sent him to Spain, accompanied by his brother BARTOLOMÉ

Fourth trip Cristóbe runs from Cabo Gracias a Dios in Honduras to the isthmus of Paprimero of the Spanish colonizers in Panama, it is the scribe Rodrigo de Bastidas.

The set of legal norms or legal dispositions that arise by the will of the Spanish monarchs or by the legitimately constituted authorities in America.

Two types of law were applied: peninsular (the same applied to Spain, adjacent islands and Africa) and the overseas or colonial. First the laws of Castilla y León were applied, the Peninsular unit did not exist yet

The so-called Leyes de Burgos, sanctioned on December 27, 1512, which of the Dominican fathers on the continued mistreatment of the Indians. And they arise because of the Crown's concern.

Although the junta members advocated the deserved freedom of the Indians and their humane treatment, they also determined that the Indians should be subject to Spanish regulations.

The Crown distributed the indigenous inhabitants in a certain place among the conquerors or settlers, in payment for their services. They had the obligation to take care of the indigenous people, to summarize it and to watch over their welfare and the indigenous people had to defend the territory entrusted to them.

The provinces are created where the Spanish government extended its
Former General Command of Panama, with the limits of the Department of the Isthmus

With efforts of Dr. Justo Arosemena, representative of the Isthmus in the Granadino Congress, it is believed that the territory was given a particular organization to guarantee its welfare and progress, the Federal State and by a National act dated February 27, 1855, it was erected to the Isthmus in the Federal State, additional to the Constitution

Spontaneous incorporation of Panamanian territory to Gran Colombia. The decree of February 9, 1822, is issued,

The government reserves the interoceanic routes, whose product was destined to the amortization of the external debt.

The Provisional Board of Government integrated by José Agustín Arango, Tomás Arias when he assumed the presidency of the Manuel Amador Guerrero Republic.

A commission was appointed: Federico Boyd and Carlos Constantino Arosemena who was to move to the United States to approve the Treaty before its signing. Varilla was cabled so that she would not sign the document until the government delegates arrived in the States. But the French engineer did not accept these documents.

The population reached 3 41,000 inhabitants and annual rents amounted to 4 million dollars. The Province of Panama had 103,000 inhabitants, being the most populated in the country and the capital city housing 70,000 inhabitants. Undoubtedly, it was a megalopolis in comparison with the other cosmopolitan ciudúcleo, in which were represented 20 to 30 nationalities of the country. In addition, it was a cosmopolitan nucleus, in which 20 to 30 nationalities and practically all races and their possible mixtures were represented.

One of its first objectives was to provide Panama with communication and penetration routes for which production centers had to communicate with the consumer places, as well as with the construction of roads, roads and bridges. The idea was to communicate the producing centers with the consuming places, as well as with the exporting ports in a fast and economic way.

According to the Census Bureau, the ethnic composition of the following population: 56.99% were derived from brown races; 14.54% were black; 14.02% were Indians; 13.76% were white and 0.69% were of the yellow race