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Term: Panamá

Description

Inhabited by Cuna, Guaym$00i & Choc$00o peoples when Spaniards arrived in 16th cen.; native population was decimated, Africans were brought here as slaves; Scottish company attempted colony 1698; part of viceroyalties of Peru & New Granada 18th-19th cen.;official language is Spanish, though English is a common second language.