PANAMA is famous for its canal, a waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. And because it connects North and South America, it also connects peoples. Panama is the cradle of many races and cultures. A large part of the population is made up of indigenous peoples and descendants of European settlers.
When the Spanish conquistadors arrived in Panama in 1501, they found numerous indigenous communities, many of which still exist today. One of them is the Kuna. The Kuna people live in the ancestral territory of the San Blas Archipelago and along the Caribbean coast, near the border between Panama and Colombia. They hunt, fish in dugout canoes, and grow their own food.
In the Kuna community, when a man marries, he moves in with his wife's relatives and works for them. And when a woman eventually has a daughter, the man and his family leave the woman's relatives and live separately.
There are about 300 congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses in Panama. In addition to Spanish, meetings are also held in Chinese, English, Gujarati, Kuna, Haitian Creole, Ngabere, and Panamanian Sign Language.

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