Boca de Cupe

{{Infobox settlement |name = Boca de Cupé |native_name = |settlement_type = Corregimiento |image_skyline = File:Boca de Cupe in 1996.jpg |image_caption = Main "street" at the village of Boca de Cupe in 1996 |image_alt = |pushpin_map = Panama |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = {{flag|Panama}} |subdivision_type1 = Province |subdivision_name1 = Darién |subdivision_type2 = District |subdivision_name2 = Pinogana |leader_title = |leader_name = |established_title = Established |established_date = |area_land_km2 = 781.1 |area_footnotes = <ref name=inec>[http://www.contraloria.gob.pa/inec/archivos/P3601Cuadro11.xls "Cuadro 11 (Superficie, población y densidad de población en la República...)"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030354/http://www.contraloria.gob.pa/inec/archivos/P3601Cuadro11.xls |date=2016-03-04 }} Table 11 (Area, population, and population density in the Republic...) (.xls). In {{cite web|title=Resultados Finales Básicos |trans-title=Basic Final Results |url=https://www.contraloria.gob.pa/inec/publicaciones/Publicaciones.aspx?ID_SUBCATEGORIA=59&ID_PUBLICACION=360&ID_IDIOMA=1&ID_CATEGORIA=13 |publisher=National Institute of Statistics and Census of Panama |access-date=May 26, 2015 |language=Spanish |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150710070123/http://www.contraloria.gob.pa/inec/Publicaciones/Publicaciones.aspx?ID_SUBCATEGORIA=59&ID_PUBLICACION=360&ID_IDIOMA=1&ID_CATEGORIA=13 |archivedate=July 10, 2015 }}</ref> |population_as_of = 2010 |population_total = 1167 |population_footnotes = <ref name=inec/> |population_density_km2 = 1.5 |population_note = Population density calculated based on land area. |timezone1 = EST |utc_offset1 = −5 |blank_name = Climate |blank_info = Am |coordinates = }} [[File:TuiraRiver fromONCSeries-USDefenseMappingAgency1981-84revisioncomposite.jpg|thumb|alt=Map of Tuira river area|U.S. Defense Mapping Agency maps excerpt showing Boca de Cupe along course of Tuira River.]] '''Boca de Cupé''' is a corregimiento in Pinogana District, Darién Province, Panama with a population of 1,167 as of 2010.<ref name=inec/> Its population as of 1990 was 901; its population as of 2000 was 902.<ref name=inec/>

The town is not served by any paved roads, with the Pan-American Highway to the north ending at Yaviza. It is reachable by boat up the Tuira River. Civilians are not permitted to travel further east towards Colombia.<Ref name="moon">[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZvoeDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT6139 Moon Central America] (2016) ("Travel up the Rio Tuira beyond Boca de Cupe is considered dangerous and has been off-limits for several years. Boca de Cupe itself has a border-police post, but that doesn't necessarily make it safe.")</ref><Ref name="rough">[https://www.roughguides.com/panama/darien/ Darien Travel Guide], Rough Guides, Retrieved 29 November 2022</ref>

In the early 1900s, a single-gauge railway ran to the town from the Cana gold mines.<Ref name="expertvaga">Karsten, Matthew (17 September 2019). [https://expertvagabond.com/darien-gap-boca-de-cupe/ The Day I Was Kicked Out of a Panamanian Village], ''Expert Vagabond''</ref> It ceased operating in 1911.<Ref name="journal">(25 December 1926). [https://books.google.com/books?id=IGMcAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1027 Gold Areas of the Province of Panama], in ''Engineering and Mining Journal'', p. 1027</ref>

Villages within the corregimiento further up the river include Sobiaquirú.<ref name="ARAP">(1 March 2018). [https://arap.gob.pa/arap-participa-de-gira-interinstitucional-en-sobiaquiru-provincia-de-darien/ ARAP participa de Gira Interinstitucional en Sobiaquirú, provincia de Darién], La Autoridad de Recursos Acuáticos de Panamá (Translated sentence from Spanish: "The place of destination was the indigenous population of Sobiaquirú located in Alto Tuira of the Corregimiento of Boca de Cupe, province of Darién.")</ref>

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Category:Corregimientos of Darién Province Category:Road-inaccessible communities of Panama