After I brief hiatus, I’m back to Mi Pueblito’s theme admitting a picture of colorful benches available within the Caribbean and Amerindian village. This area is located on the western part of Mi Pueblito, just a short walking distance from the Spanish village which I’ve described in great detail on this blog before.
This is the last leg of a magnificent tour through this highly visited tourist spot in Panama City, Panama beside Ancon Hill. This area accomodates several wooden houses reflecting the Antillean and Amerindian culture.
African culture was brought to Panama mainly by thousands of migrants from the Caribbean which were contracted by the Panama Canal for the construction of the international waterway. The contribution Afro-Caribbean workers was crucial to the success of the termination of the canal.
Most of the Panamanian population of West Indian descent owe their presence in the country to the monumental efforts to build the Panama Canal in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Three-quarters of the 50,000 workers who built the canal were Afro Caribbean migrants from the British West Indies. Thousands of Afro-Caribbean workers were recruited from Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago.
Below is a picture of benches inside the section of the Afro-Caribbean village of Mi Pueblito. More snapshots of this picturesque tourist spot will follow in the ensuing days. Here we go.
Snapshot of benches in front of a African-Caribbean church at Mi Pueblito in Panama City, Panama. This type of architecture is found in many places in Panama like Rio Abajo, Calidonia, Colon, Cristobal, and Bocas del Toro. Photo ©Omar Upegui R.
