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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
Perhaps to that end, López Obrador announced Friday that Mexico plans to extend a cargo train line that spans a narrow isthmus its the south to the Guatemalan border.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024
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
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
Pod 1° long, with linear stalk, containing many seeds separated by filamentous isthmuses.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers
The pseudospores of Rœstelia are produced in strings or chaplets, as in Æcidium, with this difference, that instead of being contiguous they are separated by narrow isthmuses.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
M. de Lesseps was elected to the Academy in 1885, when M. Renan said he had been born to pierce isthmuses, and that antiquity would have made him a god.
From The West Indies and the Spanish Main by Rodway, James
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 Humboldt, Alexander von
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