Darién Gap
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The Darién Gap is a remote, roadless, and dangerous area of rainforest on the international border between Colombia and Panama. Stretching across southern Panama's Darién Province and the northern por
A ceiba tree in the Darién Gap
Ed Culberson's "Amigo" (a BMW R80G/S motorcycle) was the first motor vehicle to fully navigate the Pan-American Highway by land.
The first Mexican by-foot crossers take a rest by the "Lost Corvair", abandoned in 1961 by a caravan from Chicago.
Venezuelan migrants being processed in Ecuador in preparation to make the long journey north to New York City, including crossing the Darién Gap
Darien scheme
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The Darien scheme or the Darien venture was an unsuccessful attempt, backed largely by investors of the Kingdom of Scotland, to gain wealth and influence by establishing New Caledonia or Britain-in-Pa
Darién Gap
…Wafer spent four years between 1680 and 1684 among the Gunas. In 1698, the Kingdom of Scotland tried to establish a settlement in a project known as the Darién scheme, intending to tame, occupy, and administer the non-traversable land of the Darién Gap, and use it as a gateway to trade between the Atlantic and Pacific…
This chest was used to store money and documents associated with the Company of Scotland, a trading company set up in 1695 with the power to establish colonies.
The Bay of Caledonia, west of the Gulf of Darién. New Edinburgh is on the isthmus on the right.