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Panama's Ministry of Culture said the discovery was "of great importance for Panamanian archaeology and the study of pre-Hispanic societies of the Central American isthmus," referring to the land that connects North and South America.

From Barron's ● Feb. 21, 2026

Paterson persuaded the Scottish parliament to establish a new enterprise based on England’s East India Company to found a Scottish colony on the narrow isthmus joining North and South America.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025

The migrant route through the narrow isthmus grew exponentially in popularity in recent years with the help of organized crime in Colombia, making it an affordable, if dangerous, land route for hundreds of thousands.

From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2024

Many gay and trans people in Mexico City and elsewhere call themselves muxes — though community leaders here, concerned about cultural appropriation, say only Zapotec people from the isthmus can qualify.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024

The latter desert separated advanced human societies of Mesoamerica from those of North America, while the isthmus separated advanced societies of Mesoamerica from those of the Andes and Amazonia.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

The Crimean Peninsula extends south from Ukraine’s mainland, with road connections on two isthmuses, one of which is less than 1 mile wide, and by a bridge from a narrow spit.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 17, 2023

The Icelanders are so well aware of this, that they have expended a great deal of labor in forming artificial islands, by separating from the main land certain promontories, joined to it by narrow isthmuses.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell

The substances washed down by rain-waters form by their accumulation new bars, isthmuses of deposited earth, and points of division that did not before exist.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt

Nay, we ought to feel some shame when we reflect that evidences in the neighborhood of both isthmuses exist of such junction having existed, in what we are pleased to designate "barbarous" ages.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various

They made islands and peninsulas and isthmuses of green that were odd and freaky.

From A Little Girl in Old New York by Amanda Minnie Douglas