Unión Chocó

Unión Chocó is a town in the indigenous territory of Emberá. It is located in, and is the capital of, Cémaco District. Omar Torrijos designated the land for the village in 1969, and the first houses were built in 1970.
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  • Type: Town with 9,500 residents
  • Description: Panamanian indigenous territory
  • Also known as: Union Choco

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Capetí and Boca de Cupe.

Hamlet
is a town in the province of . is situated 6 km southeast of Unión Chocó.

Village
Boca de Cupé is a corregimiento in , , with a population of 1,167 as of 2010. Its population as of 1990 was 901; its population as of 2000 was 902. is situated 8 km south of Unión Chocó.

Unión Chocó

Latitude
8.10175° or 8° 6′ 6″ north
Longitude
-77.60517° or 77° 36′ 19″ west
Population
9,500
Elevation
61 metres (200 feet)
Open location code
67W4492V+MW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2611993741
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
8581466
Wiki­data ID
Q4845142
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Spanish—“Unión Chocó” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: Unión Txocó
  • Cebuano: Unión Chocó
  • Chinese: 烏尼翁喬科
  • French: Unión Chocó
  • Japanese: ウニオン・チョコ
  • Lithuanian: Union Čiokas
  • Lithuanian: Unjon Čiokas
  • Lithuanian: Unjon Čoko
  • Polish: Unión Chocó
  • Serbo-Croatian: Unión Chocó
  • Spanish: Union Choco
  • Spanish: Union Chocó
  • Spanish: Unión Chocó

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Unión Chocó”. Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.