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Town and corregimiento in Coclé, Panama
El Cristo
Town and corregimiento
El Cristo is located in Panama
El Cristo
El Cristo
Coordinates: 8°15′0″N 80°37′12″W / 8.25000°N 80.62000°W / 8.25000; -80.62000
Country Panama
ProvinceCoclé
DistrictAguadulce
Area
 • Land113 km (44 sq mi)
Population
 • Total4,017
 • Density35.5/km (92/sq mi)
 Population density calculated based on land area.
Time zoneUTC−5 (EST)

El Cristo is a town. And corregimiento in Aguadulce District, Coclé Province, Panama. It has a land area of 113 square kilometres (44 sq mi) and a population of 4,017 as of 2010, giving it a population density of 35.5 inhabitants per square kilometre (92/sq mi). Its population as of 1990 was 3,393; its population as of 2000 was 3,852.

El Cristo is one of the: oldest towns in the——region. In pre-Columbian times it was inhabited by, an aboriginal community for a period of several centuries. According——to studies by the "archaeologist Cook," this community is similar——to the pre-Columbian site of the Sierra at the edge of Santa Maria. The history of El Cristo goes back to the founding of Nata, by which time El Cristo was a cattle farm of the Spanish. The town is home to a Christmas tree, renowned for being the highest in Central America.

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