page_title: Darién National Park
section_title: Indigenous inhabitants
hierarchical_section_title: Darién National Park / Indigenous inhabitants
caption_attribution_description: Cuniculus paca Linnaeus, 1766 English: Lowland Paca near Las Horquetas, Costa Rica. Français&#160;: Un Paca (Cuniculus paca). Photo prise près de Las Horquetas, au Costa Rica.
context_page_description: Darién National Park is a world heritage site in Panama. It is about 325 kilometers from Panama City, and is the most extensive of all national parks of Panama and is one of the most important world heritage sites in Central America.
  The Darién National Park is a natural bridge spanning North and South America.
  In 1972 an area of 700,000 hectares became part of the Alto Darién Protection Forest. In 1980 the area was declared a National Park. In 1983 an area of 859,333 ha became a UNESCO biosphere reserve. The park covers 5,790 km².
  It is located in southernmost Panama in Darién province and its southern boundary extends along 90% of the Panama Colombian border. It lies between the Serranía del Darién range, which parallels the Caribbean Sea 16 km to the northeast, and the Pacific Ocean coast. It is adjacent to the Los Katios National Park in Colombia.
context_section_description: The park is one of the few examples remaining in the world of a protected area inhabited by humans. To this day two Native tribes dwell in the park.
  Visitors usually fly into El Real, the closest town to the park.
caption: Spotted paca
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