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Chiriquí Province
🏁🏁🏁Founded May 26, 1849🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈
Provincia de Chiriquí
Coordinates (Seat of Government): 8°26′N 82°26′W Coordinates: 8°26′N 82°26′W
Country Panama
🏁🏁🏁Founded May 26, 1849🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈
Capital David
Area
• Total 6,490.9 km2 (2,506.2 sq mi)
Highest elevation 3,477 m (11,407 ft)
Lowest elevation 0 m (0 ft)
Population (2019)official estimate[1]
• Total 462,056
• Density 71/km2 (180/sq mi)
Time zone UTC-5 (EDT)
ISO 3166 code PA-4
Gini (2007) 32.9 (low)
HDI (2017) 0.789[2] high
Chiriquí (Spanish pronunciation: [tʃiɾiˈki]) is a province of Panama located on the western coast; it is the second most developed province in the country, after the Panamá Province. Its capital is the city of David. It has a total area of 6,490.9 km², with a population of 462,056 as of the year 2019.[1] The province of Chiriquí is bordered to the north by the provinces Bocas del Toro and Ngobe-Buglé, to the west by Costa Rica, to the east by the province of Veraguas, and to the south by the Pacific Ocean, specifically the Gulf of Chiriquí.
Until the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores, Chiriquí was populated by a number of indigenous tribes, known collectively as the Guaymí people.
The first European to visit and describe Chiriquí was Gaspar de Espinosa, in 1519. The province was officially established on May 26, 1849, when Panama was still part of Colombia. Several years later, President Abraham Lincoln of the United States proposed Chiriquí as a favored location for Linconia, a colony for free blacks from the United States; some 349 traveled here but most blacks were not interested in colonization elsewhere.
Chiriquí was the province in which Manuel Noriega rose in the military ranks in the late 20th century; he helped bring Omar Torrijos back into the country after a coup d'état. Noriega had jeeps lined up with their lights on the runway in David to allow Torrijos's aircraft to land. Chiriqui was at the heart of a short-lived pro-democracy guerrilla movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s. After the dictatorship by Manuel Noriega from 1983 to 1989, Guillermo Endara became president of Panama; he appointed Edgar De Puy as governor of Chiriquí.
