Himno Istmeño (English Hymn of the Isthmus ) is the national anthem of Panama ().

The Isthmus of Panama, also historically known as the Isthmus of Darien, is the narrow strip of land that lies between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, linking North and South America.

To the west of the Isthmus is the Gulf of Corinth, to the east the Saronic Gulf.

These were the only banknotes issued by Panama and U.S. notes have circulated both before and since.

The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a key conduit for international maritime trade.

The states of Tabasco and Chiapas are east of the isthmus, with Veracruz and Oaxaca on the west.

Since 1893 the Corinth Canal has run through the 6.3 km wide isthmus, effectively making the Peloponnese an island.

Geophysically, some geographers include the territory east of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (around 12 of the total) within Central America.

Precious metals passed through Lima on its way to the Isthmus of Panama and from there to Seville, Spain.

The isthmus between them is what geologists call the Tunis dome , which includes hills of limestone and sediments.

In the following years, the Romans conquered more of the island, increasing the size of Roman Britain.

SICA membership includes the 7 nations of Central America plus the Dominican Republic, a state that is traditionally considered part of the Caribbean.

Many of the city's suburbs lie on the large plain called the Cape Flats, which extends over to the east and joins the peninsula to the mainland.

An isthmus ( or plural isthmuses from ) is a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas, usually with water on either side.

Separated from Europe by the Mediterranean Sea, it is joined to Asia at its northeast extremity by the Isthmus of Suez (transected by the Suez Canal), wide.

The Neogene is a geologic period and system in the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) Geologic Timescale starting 23.03 million years ago and ending 2.58 million years ago.

The end result of the treaty, however, was to give the United States a legal opening in politically and economically influencing the Panama isthmus, which was part of New Granada at the time, but was later to become the independent country of Panama in accordance with the wishes of the United States.

Megalonychids first reached North America by island hopping, about 9 million years ago, prior to the formation of the Isthmus of Panama.

It lies in the northern section of the Isthmus of Corinth opposite the island of Salamis, which belonged to Megara in archaic times, before being taken by Athens.

The island consists of two roughly round portions centred on volcanic mountains and connected by a short isthmus named after the small town of Taravao, situated there.

Oaxaca ( , , from ), officially Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca (), is one of the 31 states which, along with the Federal District, make up the 32 federative entities of Mexico.

1513 Vasco Núñez de Balboa, in service of Spain arrives at the Pacific Ocean (which he called Mar del Sur) across the Isthmus of Panama.

As Brittany and Cotentin are peninsulas, it would have been possible for the Germans to cut off the Allied advance at a relatively narrow isthmus, so these sites were rejected.

Following his victory at the Battle of Thermopylae, Xerxes sacked the evacuated city of Athens and prepared to meet the Greeks at the strategic Isthmus of Corinth and the Saronic Gulf.

Separated from Europe by the Mediterranean Sea and from much of Asia by the Red Sea, Africa is joined to Asia at its northeast extremity by the Isthmus of Suez (which is transected by the Suez Canal), wide.

Between 1848 and 1869, the year the first transcontinental railroad was completed in the United States, about 375,000 persons crossed the isthmus from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and 225,000 in the opposite direction.

That is, while a strait lies between two land masses and connects two larger bodies of water, an isthmus lies between two bodies of water and connects two larger land masses.

The country consists of a large mainland the Peloponnese, a peninsula connected to the southern tip of the mainland by the Isthmus of Corinth and a large number of islands, including Crete, Rhodes, Corfu, the Dodecanese and the Cyclades.

However, to monitor the isthmus and to oppose a possible invasion of the rest of the territory, a permanent garrison was established in the area, under the military government of Campo de Gibraltar.

However, the Peloponnesian cities made fall back plans to defend the Isthmus of Corinth should it come to that, whilst the women and children of Athens had been evacuated en masse to the Peloponnesian city of Troezen.

Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south.

In some dialects the phoneme that is so common in Classical Nahuatl has changed into either as it has happened in Isthmus Mecayapan Nahuatl, Mexicanero and Pipil, or into as it has happened in Nahuatl of Pómaro, Michoacán.

The Sistema Central, dividing the Iberian Plateau into a northern and a southern half and stretching into Portugal (where the highest point of Continental Portugal (1,993 m) is located in the Serra da Estrela).

Finnish participation By August 1941, the Finns had advanced to within 20 km of the northern suburbs of Leningrad at the 1939 Finnish Soviet border, threatening the city from the north they were also advancing through East Karelia, east of Lake Ladoga, and threatening the city from the east.

De Nicuesa and De Ojeda noted the existence of a big bay on the way from Santo Domingo to Urabá and the Panama isthmus, and that encouraged Bastidas to investigate.

Mesoamerica is a region and cultural area in the Americas, extending approximately from central Mexico to Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica, within which a number of pre Columbian societies flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries.

According to this study, it is probable that the ancestors of the Native Americans would have remained for a time in the region of the Bering Strait, after which there would have been a rapid movement of settling of the Americas, taking the founding lineages to South America.

Xerxes decided that the Hellespont would be bridged to allow his army to cross to Europe, and that a canal should be dug across the isthmus of Mount Athos (rounding which headland, a Persian fleet had been destroyed in 492 BC).

Despite Finnish resistance, a peace treaty was signed in March 1940, wherein Finland ceded some key territory to the Soviet Union, including the Karelian Isthmus, containing Finland's second largest city, Viipuri, and the critical defensive structure of the Mannerheim Line.

With the formation of the Panamanian land bridge to North America about three million years ago, boids have migrated north as colubrids (and various Nearctic mammals) have migrated south, as part of the Great American Interchange.

History Madison's origins begin in 1829, when former federal judge James Duane Doty purchased over a thousand acres (4 km²) of swamp and forest land on the isthmus between Lakes Mendota and Monona, with the intention of building a city in the Four Lakes region.

To the west of the Casiquiare, there is a much shorter and easier portage between the Orinoco and Amazon basins, called the isthmus of Pimichin, which is reached by ascending the Terni branch of the Atabapo River, an affluent of the Orinoco.

In contrast with impressive Soviet victories in the Balkans, the bitter Finnish resistance to the Soviet offensive in the Karelian Isthmus denied the Soviets occupation of Finland and led to the signing of Soviet Finnish armistice on relatively mild conditions, with a subsequent shift to the Allied side by Finland.

The west coast is indented by two deep inlets, the northernmost, the Gulf of İzmit (ancient Gulf of Astacus), penetrating between 40 and 50 miles (65 80 km) into the interior as far as İzmit (ancient Nicomedia), separated by an isthmus of only about 25 miles (40 km) from the Black Sea and the Gulf of Mudanya or Gemlik (Gulf of Cius), about 25 miles (40 km) long.