Welcome to a Turquoise Paradise!
We are in the comarca of Guna Yala, a long coastal territory located in the northeast of Panama, on the Caribbean Sea side.
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Publié le
21/07/2021
Par
Jonathan Jagot
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179
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There are nearly 400 islets here, of which only about sixty are inhabited by the Kuna Indians. The Kuna people are descendants of the Maya, who mixed with the Amazon Indians. They used to live in the mountains on the mainland, before gradually leaving the coast of the mainland and fleeing to the islands after the Spanish in-vasion in the 16th century. The Kunas’ language and culture have been preserved - an excit-ing discovery fostered by the relatively relaxed contact with them during sailors’ stopovers. ANCHORAGES / COORDINATES This is what it’s all about: those secret spots, the quiet corne…