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Panama Geography (Description and Characteristics of each division of the …
Panama Geography
Description and Characteristics of each division of the
Geography.
The total area of the Republic is 77 082 km2
85% of
territory is composed of wide plains
The average temperature of the high regions ranges from 19 to 21 ° C; on the coast, it is 27 ºC.
Geographic Division: The country is divided into ten provinces: Panama, West Panama, Bocas del Toro, Chiriquí, Colón, El Darién, Herrera, Los Santos and Veraguas, the region of San Blas (Kuna-Yala)
Borders: It borders to the north with the Caribbean Sea, to the south with the Pacific Ocean, to the west with Costa Rica and
To the east with Colombia.
Relief
It is 100 percent tropical with temperatures ranging between 26 and 30 ° C throughout the year. There are two seasons, one dry with bright sunshine, from December to April and one rainy
The Divisions of Geography
Geography studies nature and societies from the point of view of its location and distribution in SPACE
The Physical Geography
The Human Geography
Human Geography Divisions
Social geography
It focuses on studies that relate society and territory, interested in how society affects geographical factors
Economic geography
The combination of environmental and spatial influences in the study of
economic activity is anything but a regression towards geographical determinism
Its official currency is the Balboa, which is equivalent to the US dollar that circulates legally
throughout its territory since (1904).
The Political Geography
Its main objective is to try to analyze and understand at a regional and general level the way in which the geographical environment, and the resources therein
Part of the geography that cares about the relationship between man and the environment, as well as the human use of the physical environment
it is the part of the Geography that studies the surface of the Earth, a "wrapper"
which, in addition to its extension, has a certain thickness in depth and height
Geomorphology
Climatology
deals with the study of weather and weather
Hydrogeography
Ocean water bodies, currents and continental water bodies
Hydrography
There are 350 rivers on the Pacific slope and 150 in the Caribbean Sea
the branch of Physical Geography that studies the relief
According to Professor Ángel Rubio, considered the main pioneer of Panamanian geography
Low or hot lands, less than 700 meters high
Medium altitude or temperate lands
The highlands or coldlands, those that have more than 1,500 meters of latitude