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Puerto Armuelles
Puerto Armuelles is a city and corregimiento on Panama's Pacific coast in western Chiriquí Province next to Costa Rica. It is the seat of Barú District.〔 Puerto Armuelles is the second largest city in Chiriqui province with a population near 25,000, and has two different type of deep-water ports, one for bananas and one for oil.
==Overview==
Puerto Armuelles is just from the border with Costa Rica as the crow flies yet the actual border crossing lies away. David the capital of Chiriquí Province is about away. Panama City is some way, or approximately 6–8 hours drive on the Pan American Highway. Puerto Armuelles' most famous citizen is Omar Moreno, who was a baseball outfielder from 1975 to 1986 in the U.S. The name, Puerto Armuelles, was given to the city in honor of one of the heroes of the Coto war, Tomás Armuelles, member of the Panamanian Defense Forces (PDF) who died in an accident on March 18, 1921, during the Coto War between Panama and Costa Rica. The former name of the city was "Rabo de Puerco" or "Pigtail". Google earth has as of April 2008 updated images of Puerto Armuelles to a much clearer image. The image shows from the bridge entering town all the way down the coast past the oil port terminals. Although most of the image is empty ocean any clear picture of the main parts of Puerto Armuelles are a blessing.
Once the center of a thriving banana economy, Chiquita Banana i.e. United Fruit Company sold its unprofitable Pacific division, which was based in Puerto Armuelles since 1927, to a cooperative of banana workers in 2003. Striking workers and other such problems with employees sped the demise of Puerto Armuelles relationship with United Fruit Company. Around this time, Puerto Armuelle's population dropped significantly. Its population was 46,093 in 1990, 22,755 in 2000, and 20,455 in 2010.〔
Panama fought Costa Rica in the 1920s near Puerto Armuelles. The Coto War was fought over a relatively small piece of territory. Panama was victorious, but gave the territory to Costa Rica in the 1940s after the dispute was mediated by the U.S.A. and found in favor of Costa Rica. The President of Panama decided to abide by that ruling although it was a very unpopular decision in Panama. An interesting side note is that today Panama and Costa Rica both have no military, just a civil defense force. Both countries, although doing so decades apart, felt that this was the only way to end military takeovers of their governments. For more info see military of Panama.
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