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El Pantano

corregimiento in Veraguas, Panama

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ21014478 ↗
Source-derived summary

El Pantano is a corregimiento in Santa Fé District, Veraguas Province, Panama with a population of 658 as of 2010. Its population as of 1990 was 725; its population as of 2000 was 676.

Editorial summary

“El Pantano” enters the record as corregimiento in Veraguas, Panama. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pantano, corregimiento and Veraguas can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. 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 Pantano, corregimiento and Veraguas.
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Why this record matters

“El Pantano” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Pantano, corregimiento and Veraguas provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21014478. Authority coordinates are 8.550, -81.067. 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.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “El Pantano” 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.