Darien Gap
The Darién Gap is a break in the Pan-American Highway consisting of a large swath of undeveloped swampland and forest within Panama's Darién Province in Central America and the northern portion of Colombia's Chocó Department in South America.Photo: Gustavo.ross, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Saraedum, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: region
- Description: break in the Pan-American Highway consisting of a large swath of undeveloped swampland and forest
- Also known as: “Darién Gap”
Darien Gap
- Category: gap
- Location: South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
7.9° or 7° 54′ northLongitude of center
-77.46° or 77° 27′ 36″ westWikidata ID
Q917276
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Darien Gap” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “منطقة دارين”
- Armenian: “Դարիենի պատնեշ”
- Basque: “Dariéngo eskualdea”
- Belarusian: “Дар’енскі прабел”
- Bengali: “দারিয়েন গ্যাপ”
- Catalan: “Tap del Darién”
- Chinese: “达连地堑”
- Chinese: “达连隘口”
- Chinese: “達連隘口”
- Czech: “Darién”
- Danish: “Tapón del Darién”
- Dutch: “Darien Gap”
- Dutch: “Darién Gap”
- Dutch: “Darién”
- Esperanto: “Darienio”
- Estonian: “Dariéni lünk”
- Finnish: “Darién Gap”
- Finnish: “Darién”
- French: “Bouchon de Darien”
- French: “Bouchon de Darién”
- French: “Darien Gap”
- French: “Darién Gap”
- French: “Isthme de Darién”
- French: “Région de Darien”
- French: “Région de Darién”
- French: “Région du Darién”
- French: “Tapón del Darién”
- Georgian: “დარიენის ნაპრალი”
- Georgian: “დარიენის ყელი”
- German: “Darien Gap”
- German: “Darién Gap”
- German: “Tapon del Darien”
- German: “Tapón del Darién”
- Hebrew: “נתק דריין”
- Hungarian: “Darién régió”
- Hungarian: “Panama-földhíd”
- Indonesian: “Celah Darién”
- Italian: “Darién”
- Japanese: “ダリエン・ギャップ”
- Japanese: “ダリエン地峡”
- Kazakh: “Дариен аралығы”
- Korean: “다리엔 지협”
- Lithuanian: “Darjeno sritis”
- Macedonian: “Дариенски Расцеп”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tapón del Darién”
- Norwegian: “Tapón del Darién”
- Persian: “گسست دارین”
- Persian: “ناحیه دارین”
- Polish: “Darién Gap”
- Polish: “Darién”
- Portuguese: “Montanhas Darién”
- Portuguese: “Região de Darién”
- Russian: “Дарьенский пробел”
- Russian: “Дарьенский разрыв”
- Serbian: “Даријенски прекид”
- Serbian: “Даријенски расцеп”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Darijenski rascjep”
- Slovenian: “Darienska vrzel”
- Spanish: “Darién”
- Spanish: “Region de Darien”
- Spanish: “Region de Darién”
- Spanish: “Región de Darien”
- Spanish: “Región de Darién”
- Spanish: “Region del Darien”
- Spanish: “Region del Darién”
- Spanish: “Región del Darien”
- Spanish: “región del Darién”
- Spanish: “Región del Darién”
- Spanish: “tapón del Darién”
- Spanish: “Tapón del Darién”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⴰⵏⴱⴰⴹⵜ ⵏ ⴷⴰⵔⵢⵉⵏ”
- Swedish: “Darién-gapet”
- Tachelhit: “Tamnaḍt n Daryin”
- Tamil: “டாரியன் வளைகுடா”
- Thai: “จุกดาริเอน”
- Thai: “ช่องโหว่ดาริเอน”
- Thai: “ภูมิภาคดาริเอน”
- Turkish: “Darién Boşluğu”
- Ukrainian: “Дар’єнський пропуск”
- Ukrainian: “Дар’єнський розрив”
- Venetian: “Darién”
- Yue Chinese: “達連隘口”
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