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One visit is just scratching the surface of the isthmus nation; here are nine ideas for how to spend your next Panamanian holiday.
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Siobhan Reid, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 May 2024
Today in history On this day in 1904, the United States and Panama proclaimed a treaty under which the U.S. agreed to undertake efforts to build a ship canal across the Panama isthmus.
—The Arizona Republic, 26 Feb. 2024
The tests took place about twenty miles south of Christchurch, on a thin, dusty isthmus called the Kaitorete Spit.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
The isthmus, Mexico’s narrowest point between the Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico, is a key smuggling corridor for U.S.-bound illicit drugs and undocumented migrants.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 17 Jan. 2024
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Siobhan Reid, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 May 2024
Today in history On this day in 1904, the United States and Panama proclaimed a treaty under which the U.S. agreed to undertake efforts to build a ship canal across the Panama isthmus.
—The Arizona Republic, 26 Feb. 2024
The tests took place about twenty miles south of Christchurch, on a thin, dusty isthmus called the Kaitorete Spit.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
The isthmus, Mexico’s narrowest point between the Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico, is a key smuggling corridor for U.S.-bound illicit drugs and undocumented migrants.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 17 Jan. 2024
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“Isthmus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/isthmus. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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