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Chepillo

Representante: ninin Jiménez

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ21055644 ↗
Source-derived summary

Chepillo is a corregimiento in Chepo District, Panamá Province, Panama, with a population of 255 as of 2010. Its population as of 1990 was 254; its population as of 2000 was 237.

Editorial summary

“Chepillo” enters the record as representante: ninin Jiménez. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Chepillo, Representante and ninin can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010, 1990, 2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Chepillo, Representante and ninin.
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“Chepillo” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Chepillo, Representante and ninin provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21055644. Authority coordinates are 8.954, -79.129. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010, 1990 and 2000.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chepillo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.