The divisions of geography
The branches of physical geography
geomorphology climatology hydrogeography biogeography
Human geography
It is the part of geography that is concerned with the relationship between man and the environment at the same time by the human use of the physical environment.
Divisions of human geography
Social Geography, Economic Geography Political Geography, Geopolitics, Historical Geography, Rural Geography, Urban Geography Geography of Persection, Geography of Gender
Description and features
Panama is located in Central America, on the isthmus that connects it with South America, 85% of its territory is composed of wide plains, is crossed by 4 large mountain ranges and has a tropical, hot and humid climate.
Physical geography of Panama
Morphology
In western Panama there are 10 stratum volcanoes, approximately 15 to 20 volcanic domes and cones parallel to the south of the main arc
Coast
The Pacific coast has an extension of 1,690 km, and the Caribbean of 1 160 km. Panama has more than 1,600 islands off its coast
Hydrography
Panama, a country with a very rainy tropical climate, has a large number of ríos.se estimated to be about 500; about 350 on the Pacific slope, larger than the surface of the Caribbean Sea, which only has about 150.
Human and Political Geography of Panama
Population
Whites 8% mestizos 70% Blacks14% Indigenous 6%Asians 2%
total reaches more than 3,300,400 inhabitants in 2005
Etnia
Its population is a melting pot of races that includes 62% of mestizos, 14% of Africans, 10% of Spaniards, 5% Indians. The 7 indigenous ethnic groups that live in Panama are scattered throughout the territory, in regions, very localized
Religion
There are 85% Roman Catholics 10% Evangelical Christians, 5% others
Political division
It comprises 9 provinces, 75 districts, 5 indigenous regions and 620 corregimientos
It has a population in sub majority of mestizo extraction product of the mixture between negroides, aborigines and Caucasians,
The city was founded in 1850 at the end of the Panama Railroad
Economic geography
Description
.Its official currency is the Balboa, which is equivalent to the US dollar that has been legally circulating throughout its territory since 1904. It is governed by a system open to the free economy and its main banner is exports as a new way to increase the national economy, being the Panama Canal a great contribution to the country
Resources
Its official currency is the Balboa, which is equivalent to the US dollar that has been legally circulating throughout its territory since 1904. It is governed by a system open to the free economy and its main banner is exports as a new way to increase the national economy, being the Panama Canal a great contribution to the country
Tourism
Panamanian Institute of Tourism. institution in charge of presenting the best of our country, embodied in the culture, customs, crafts, folklore and our beautiful fauna and flora with which we have today