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