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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
“Even though I am not muxe from the isthmus, for me the word implies respect and tolerance,” said Lía Maritza Sánchez, 51, an L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
It is known as the 'gap' on Panama's Darien isthmus because it is the only missing section, running about 60 miles, on the Pan-American highway that stretches from Alaska to Argentina.
From Reuters ● Jul. 22, 2023
Downcountry a storm had passed over the isthmus and leveled the dead black trees from east to west like weeds in the floor of a stream.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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
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
The isthmuses of Panama and Suez are in our way; we cut through them!
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century by N. D'Anvers
Marine isthmuses, cutting of, 517; its difficulties, 518; sometimes done by nature, 519.
From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh
Pod 1° long, with linear stalk, containing many seeds separated by filamentous isthmuses.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
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