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To understand the culture of Panama is to understand where Panama came from and to understand why Panama known. “The Republic of Panama is a former Spanish colony in Central America with a mixed population of Creoles, mestizos, European immigrants, Africans, and indigenous Indians.” (everyculture) Panama has two other names that it goes by, culture name is Panamanian and alternative name is Panameno (Spanish). Panama is a tropical country and has distinct dry and wet seasons, and between the months of December to mid‐April is the driest months, and the months of October to November are the wettest. In the 1500s when the Spanish conquered Panama it was refer to as Castilla de Oro, a source of gold and became a base for the Spanish soldiers. …show more content…

Panamanians believe in freedom of religion as it states by their constitution, but also Roman Catholic is recognize in the constitution and believes that it should be teach in schools. They did not make it mandatory because they do believe in freedom of religion like the one I stated before. The main religion for Panama is Roman Catholic, because of its very strong Spanish culture and followed by Protestantism. Protestants is broken up in several groups; Southern Baptist Convention, United Methodist, Methodist Church of the Caribbean and Americas, and Lutherans, which were derive from American Black comminutes. Those are not the only religion that is practice in the country, just the main two. The smaller religions that’s they have are Bahai Faith Community, Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormons), Seventh Day Adventists, Jehovah’s Witness, Episcopalians, than Jewish, Muslim, Hindus, and Buddhist communities. A lot of the culture is base off their religion and faith, because they have festivals every year and some that are similar to the United States Mardi …show more content…

Still today as for the past cattle rising, livestock and exporting meats is an important economic activity. Parts of some of the rainforest turned into or converted into pastures to raise cattle. Most of the Afro-colonials near the coast of Atlantic Ocean engaged in horticulture and fishing. Panama does not start with any factories or industries, as a new country that is still building them up to be competitive with the rest of the world; they now produce majority sugar and bananas. With the economy the way it is around the world, you cannot do everything yourself. Therefore, you have to rely on trade as well. Panama is no different from the rest of the world when it comes to wanting to earn or get foreign currency. The Panama government relies on transit, transshipping and banking to earn foreign currency. With having the Panama Canal at your footsteps, it allows a lot of imports and exports. They tend to export a lot of coffee, bananas, beef and tropical hardwoods and they get imported petroleum because they do not have their own oil fields. In 1997 majority of their labor force starts with 18 percent in agriculture and it’s their less moneymaker of the three. Agriculture only grosses 8 percent of the income to Panama when 18 of labor is also industry that grosses 25 percent of the income and 67 percent of

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