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Unión Santeña

corregimiento in Panamá, Panama

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ12221144 ↗
Source-derived summary

Unión Santeña is a corregimiento in Chimán District, Panamá Province, Panama with a population of 920 as of 2010. It was created by Law 5 of January 19, 1998. Its population as of 2000 was 1,023.

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

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010, 1998, 2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Unión, Santeña and corregimiento.
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“Unión Santeña” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Unión, Santeña and corregimiento provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Apr 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q12221144. Authority coordinates are 8.765, -78.730. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010, 1998 and 2000.

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This entry incorporates text from “Unión Santeña” 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.