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Tabasará Mountains
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Map of Panama highlighting its physical features, including major mountain ranges, volcanoes, national parks, and bodies of water such as the Caribbean Sea, Pacific Ocean, Gulf of Panama, and the Panama Canal. Neighboring countries Costa Rica and Colombia are labeled, and an inset locator map shows Panama's position in Central America.
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Tabasará Mountains

mountains, Panama
Also known as: Cordillera Central
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    The two principal ranges, the Tabasará Mountains (Cordillera Central) in the west and the Cordillera de San Blas in the east, are separated near the centre of the country by a saddle of lower land. This depression (the Panama Canal site) divides the country again—roughly into western and eastern halves.…

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    The two principal ranges, the Tabasará Mountains (Cordillera Central) in the west and the Cordillera de San Blas in the east, are separated near the centre of the country by a saddle of lower land. This depression (the Panama Canal site) divides the country again—roughly into western and eastern halves.…

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