Distribution of Indigenous Populations in Panama
by Province and Comarca, 2000
(Compiled from Censos Nationales de Panama, Final Results, 2000) nd = no data

COMARCA

Kuna

Ngöbe

Buglé

Teribe

 (Naso)a

Bokota

Emberá

Wounaan

Bri Bri

Undeclared

TOTALS

Kuna Yala

31,215

27

0

1

0

39

9

2

1

31,294

Madungandib

5,000

nd

nd

nd

nd

nd

nd

nd

nd

5,000

Wargandic

1,600

nd

nd

nd

nd

nd

nd

nd

nd

1,600

Ngöbe-Buglé

106

100,875

5,373

21

328

2

4

7

0

106,716

Emberá-Wounaan

14

22

0

0

15

6,286

1,291

2

0

7,630

PROVINCE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bocas del Toro

598

41,714

3,068

2,584

91

87

877

275

0

49,294

Coclé

93

290

80

6

3

31

25

98

15

641

Colón

3,235

175

99

12

29

602

157

209

22

4,540

Chiriquí

316

19,866

6,191

368

143

109

602

290

126

28,011

Dariénc

90

241

73

24

38

7,323

1,906

32

5

9,732

Herrera

148

102

48

5

2

34

8

19

1

367

Los Santos

56

62

14

2

1

5

12

11

5

168

Panamáb

19,133

2,676

1,223

252

193

7,926

1,950

1,469

299

35,121

Veraguas

103

3,080

1,562

30

150

41

41

107

3

5,117

TOTALS

61,707

169,130

17,731

3,305

993

22,485

6,882

2,521

477

285,231
  1. The Naso do not yet have a legally recognized comarca. In 2002, their king requested that the government grant them one (El Panama America 9/23/02)
  2. The census does not include figures for the Comarca of Madungandi, which is in the Province of Panamá and is estimated to have a population of about 5,000 Kuna. This number has been subtracted from the census total of Kuna in the Province of Panamá.
  3. The census also does not include figures for the Comarca of Wargandi, which is in the Province of Darién and is estimated to have a population of about 1,600 Kuna. This number has been subtracted from the census total of Kuna in the Province of Darién.
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