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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 saying goes that almost every family here on the isthmus includes a person who identifies as muxe.

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

The isthmus is a medley of mountains, beaches, wet tropical forests, and dry savannas, and is the most ecologically diverse area in Mesoamerica.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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 natural route lay obviously through the Caribbean, across some one of the isthmuses, and up the Pacific coast.

From The Path of Empire; a chronicle of the United States as a world power by Carl Russell Fish

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

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