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The Gulf of Darién is the southernmost region of the Caribbean Sea, located north and east of the border between Panama and Colombia. Within the gulf is the Gulf of Urabá, a small lip of sea extending southward, between Caribana Point and Cape Tiburón, Colombia, on the southern shores of which is the port city of Turbo, Colombia. The Atrato River delta extends into the Gulf of Darién. Map of Central America and the Caribbean The Caribbean (pronounced or ) Sea is a tropical sea in the Western Hemisphere, part of the Atlantic Ocean, southeast of the Gulf of Mexico. ... The Gulf of Urabá is a gulf on the northern coast of South America. ... Turbo is a port town in Antioquia Department, Colombia. ... The Río Atrato is a river of northwestern Colombia. ...


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Darien II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (241 words)
Darien II was the last Aliya Beth ship to bring refugees to Haifa (now in Israel) before the end of World War II, on March 19, 1941.
He changed the name to Darien II (Darién is a gulf in Panama).
Though the Darien was British property, the Mossad sent her to Istanbul and from there to Romania in October 1940, the refugees from Cladova didn't arrive so they put aboard 800 refugees from Romania and Bulgaria including survivors from the Salvador, after a series of adventures the Darien II arrived in Haifa.
AllRefer.com - DariEn, region, Panama (Panama Political Geography) - Encyclopedia (220 words)
dAryAn´] Pronunciation Key, eastern part of Panama between the Gulf of DariEn on the east and the Gulf of San Miguel on the west.
DariEn province, heavily forested and sparsely populated, is in the western part of the region.
In 1513, Vasco NUnez de Balboa led an expedition across DariEn and became the first European to view the Pacific Ocean from the New World.
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