Panama Ceety

Panama Ceety
Panama Ceety
	Ceety
	Panamá
	Top tae bottom, left tae richt: Panama Canal, Skyline, Brig o the Americaes, The bovedas, Casco Viejo o Panama an Metropolitan Cathedral o Panama.
	Banner Coat airms
	Panama Ceety
	Coordinates: 8°59′N 79°31′W / 8.983°N 79.517°W
Kintra	Panama
Province	Panamá
Destrict	Panama
Foondation	August 15, 1519
Foondit bi	Pedro Arias de Ávila
Govrenment
• Mayor	Roxana Méndez
Area
• Ceety	275 km2 (106 sq mi)
• Metro	2560.8 km2 (988.7 sq mi)
Elevation	2 m (7 ft)
Population (2010)
• Ceety	880,691
• Density	2750/km2 (7656/sq mi)
• Metro	1,272,672
HDI (2007)	0.780 – high
Website	www.municipio.gob.pa

Panama (Spaingie: Panamá) is the caipital an lairgest ceety o the Republic o Panama. It haes a population o 439,642, wi a tot metro population o 1,272,599, an it is locatit at the Paceefic entrance o the Panama Canal, at 8°58′N 79°32′W / 8.967°N 79.533°W / 8.967; -79.533. The ceety is the poleetical an administrative centre o the kintra, an a hub for internaitional bankin an commerce.^[2] It is considered a Gamma Warld Ceety.^[3]

Wi an average GDP per capita o US$11,700,^[4] Panama haes been amang the tap five places for retirement in the warld, accordin tae the Internaitional Living magazine. Panama Ceety haes a dense skyline o maistly heichhrise biggins, an it is surroondit bi a lairge belt o tropical rainforest. It haes an advanced communications service, Internet uise is widespread; an Panama's Tocumen International Airport, the biggest an busiest airport o Central Americae, affers daily flichts tae major internaitional destinations.

Panama Ceety wis chosen tae be the American Caipital o Cultur for the year 2003 (jointly, wi Curitiba, Brazil).

History

Panama wis foondit on August 15, 1519, bi the Spainyie conquistador Pedro Arias de Ávila. The ceety wis the stairtin pynt o expeditions that conquered the Inca Empire in Peru (1532). It wis a stopower pynt o ane o the maist important trade routes in the history o the American continent leadin tae the fairs o Nombre de Dios an Portobelo, whaur maist o the gowd an siller that Spain teuk frae the Americas passed throu.^[5] The ceety wis destroyed bi a devastatin fire, when the pirate Henry Morgan sacked it on Januar 28, 1671. It wis rebuilt an formally established on Januar 21, 1673, in a peninsula locatit 8 km frae the oreeginal dounset. The place whaur the previously devastatit ceety wis locatit is still in ruins, an haes acome a tourist attraction kent as "Panama Viejo".

References

↑ "Informe de Desarrollo Humano en Panamá" (in Spanish). 2007. Archived frae the original on 3 November 2013. Retrieved 7 September 2010.CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link)
↑ "Investing in Panama". BussinesPanama.com. Archived frae the original on 9 December 2010. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
↑ www.lboro.ac.uk Archived 2016-08-11 at the Wayback Machine The World According to GaWC 2008 – Retrieved on 2010-10-10
↑ "Panama GDP - per capita (PPP) - Economy". Indexmundi.com. 19 Februar 2010. Retrieved 26 Juin 2010.
↑ "World Heritage Site". "World Heritage Site". 17 Februar 2010. Archived frae the original on 8 Mairch 2009. Retrieved 26 Juin 2010.

Freemit airtins

Offeecial wabsteid for Panama Ceety Archived 2011-02-25 at the Wayback Machine
Offeecial wabsteid for Panama's Tourism Bureau

Coordinates: 8°59′N 79°31′W / 8.983°N 79.517°W / 8.983; -79.517

[1] "Informe de Desarrollo Humano en Panamá" (in Spanish). 2007. Archived frae the original on 3 November 2013. Retrieved 7 September 2010.CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link)

[2] "Investing in Panama". BussinesPanama.com. Archived frae the original on 9 December 2010. Retrieved 16 December 2010.

[3] www.lboro.ac.uk Archived 2016-08-11 at the Wayback Machine The World According to GaWC 2008 – Retrieved on 2010-10-10

[4] "Panama GDP - per capita (PPP) - Economy". Indexmundi.com. 19 Februar 2010. Retrieved 26 Juin 2010.

[World_Heritage_Site-5] "World Heritage Site". "World Heritage Site". 17 Februar 2010. Archived frae the original on 8 Mairch 2009. Retrieved 26 Juin 2010.

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