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Guna Yala is recognised as a comarca indígena within Panama, meaning it functions as an indigenous territory with a degree of political autonomy inside the state. The region lies on the country’s ...
News Panama » Guna Yala » Life: In Panama, Indigenous Guna prepare for climate exodus from a second island home
If you liked this story, share it with other people. The island of Uggubseni, located in Panama’s Guna Yala provincial-level Indigenous region, spent the month of February participating in region-wide ...
News Panama » Guna Yala » Life: Guna Yala’s island comarca and the gateway of El Porvenir
The most immediate image of Guna Yala is the scatter of low islands lying off the north coast of Panama east of the Panama Canal, a formation often referred to in English as the San Blas Islands.San ...
News Panama » Guna Yala » Life: Threatened by rising seas, the first of Panama’s Indigenous islanders are forced to leave
Gardi Sugdub, Panama — On the densely packed island of Gardi Sugdub, off the coast of mainland Panama, colorful houses and wooden huts cover nearly the entire landscape almost up to the water’s edge.
News Panama » Guna Yala » Life: Panama prepares to evacuate first island in face of rising sea levels
GARDI SUGDUB, Panama — On a tiny island off Panama’s Caribbean coast, about 300 families are packing their belongings in preparation for a dramatic change. Generations of Gunas who have grown up on ...
News Panama » Guna Yala » Life: Climate change is pushing an Indigenous community in Panama off their island home
On a tiny island off the coast of Panama, about 1,200 Indigenous locals known as the Guna people are waiting to leave. The island, which is called Carti Sugtupu, is over the size of four football ...
News Panama » Guna Yala » Life: Panama delays promised relocation of sinking island community
If you liked this story, share it with other people. The government of Panama continues to delay the process of relocating almost 1,300 Indigenous Guna inhabitants from an island experiencing rising ...
News Panama » Guna Yala » Life: Sailing San Blas Islands, Panama
We sail around the untouched islands of San Blas in the Guna Yala province of Panama! We join Boris and Nomad Sailors as they show us these beautiful islands and the peaceful way of life on a sailboat ...