Inside one of the MOST DANGEROUS neighborhoods in Panama City 🇵🇦

El Chorrillo is a district of Panama, located in the urban center of Panama City. It was founded on April 29, 1915, together with the neighboring villages of San Felipe, Santa Ana and Calidonia.

This neighborhood owes its name to a water spring that was born on the slopes of Cerro Ancón, popularly known as El Chorro. It was originally populated by foreigners who arrived in the country attracted by the construction of the Panama Canal.

Many of its first settlers were of Antillean origin, which is why it is still common to find, on its corners, the improvised sale of fried fish and other Antillean-style foods. As a consequence of the 1989 US invasion, most of the houses in this neighborhood were destroyed, after the troops of the United States Southern Command invaded the old Central Headquarters of the Defense Forces of Panama, located in these areas. The old neighborhood disappeared to make way for the existing new buildings.

This is one of the sectors of the city recognized for a large number of social problems, led by violence, caused mostly by gangs. However, its people live a passion for sports, such as soccer. It is the only corregimiento in the district of Panama that has two teams in the first division of the Panamanian Soccer League, such as CD Plaza Amador and Chorrillo FC.

Outstanding neighbors of El Chorrillo are or have been the poet Héctor M. Collado, Olga Cárdenas, Hector Brands, the boxer Roberto Durán and the soccer player Rommel Fernández.

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