The Darien Region Between Colombia and Panama: Gap or Seal?

Few places in the world conjure images as powerful as the Darien Gap. This narrow anchorage point between Mesoamerica and the South American continent, straddling Panama and Colombia, is geologically one of the youngest portions of land in the Americas. The Darien is also the southernmost of the five major potential inter-oceanic routes across the Mesoamerican isthmus.