Situated between Costa Rica and Colombia, this narrow isthmus nation serves as the link between Central and South America. It's also becoming a hotspot for ecotourism, with misty mountains ...

An example of vicariance is the separation of marine creatures on either side of Central America when the Isthmus of Panama closed about 3 million years ago, creating a land bridge between North ...

Within recent years all this has been changed. Naturalists and collectors have ransacked every part of the Central-American Isthmus, from the frontiers of the United States down to the Panama ...

Xi Jinping is the first Chinese president to visit Panama and his arrival comes as the Asian giant is spreading its influence across Latin America ... across the Central American isthmus.