La Chorrera is a city and municipality in southern Panama

Panama

Panama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The...

 which is located about 30 km south-west of Panama City

Panama City

Panama is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Panama. It has a population of 880,691, with a total metro population of 1,272,672, and it is located at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal, in the province of the same name. The city is the political and administrative center of the...

. It is the second largest city in the country, with about 180,000 inhabitants. La Chorrera is renowned for its international fair and famous as being the home of Bollo and Chicheme. It is from where 2% of the country's wood comes. Many foreigners who arrive to this city leave with the phrase "La Bella, Enamoradora y Querendona, La Gran Chorrera". The town got this phrase for its beautiful women, kind people, and happy night life. La Chorrera is the home of San Francisco F.C.

San Francisco F.C.

San Francisco Fútbol Club is a professional football team located in La Chorrera, Panamá, that plays in Liga Panameña de Fútbol, the top Panamanian football league. The club plays its games in Estadio Agustín Sánchez. San Francisco have won 6 Liga Panameña de Fútbol championships, the second...

, Mariano Rivera

Mariano Rivera

Mariano Rivera is a Panamanian right-handed baseball pitcher who has played 17 years in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees. Nicknamed "Mo", Rivera has served as a relief pitcher for most of his career, and since 1997, he has been the Yankees' closer...

 (Apaga y Vamonos, New York Yankees), Vicente Mosquera

Vicente Mosquera

Vicente Eduardo Mosquera Mena is a Panamanian professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association super-featherweight champion....

 (former World Boxing Champion), and José Luis Garcés

Jose Luis Garces

José Luis Garcés is a Panamanian footballer that currently plays for Liga Panamena de Futbol team San Francisco FC-Club career:...

.

Geography and climate

La Chorrera has a warm tropical climate

Tropical climate

A tropical climate is a climate of the tropics. In the Köppen climate classification it is a non-arid climate in which all twelve months have mean temperatures above...

 with heavy seasonal rains in the months of May to November, leading to extensive grasslands that favors cattle-raising, and to a lesser extent, pork.

The fertile lands yield good crops of pineapple

Pineapple

Pineapple is the common name for a tropical plant and its edible fruit, which is actually a multiple fruit consisting of coalesced berries. It was given the name pineapple due to its resemblance to a pine cone. The pineapple is by far the most economically important plant in the Bromeliaceae...

, rice

Rice

Rice is the seed of the monocot plants Oryza sativa or Oryza glaberrima . As a cereal grain, it is the most important staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and the West Indies...

, coffee

Coffee

Coffee is a brewed beverage with a dark,init brooo acidic flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant, colloquially called coffee beans. The beans are found in coffee cherries, which grow on trees cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily in equatorial Latin America, Southeast Asia,...

, oranges

Orange (fruit)

An orange—specifically, the sweet orange—is the citrus Citrus × sinensis and its fruit. It is the most commonly grown tree fruit in the world....

, cassava

Cassava

Cassava , also called yuca or manioc, a woody shrub of the Euphorbiaceae native to South America, is extensively cultivated as an annual crop in tropical and subtropical regions for its edible starchy tuberous root, a major source of carbohydrates...

, beans and sugar cane.

Location

La Chorrera is located on the Panamerican Highway between the districts of Capira

Capira

- Sources :* – World-Gazetteer.com...

 and Arraiján

Arraiján

Arraiján is a city in the Panamá province of Panama, and the administrative headquarters of the district of the same name.- Sources :* – World-Gazetteer.com...

, and is about 7 kilometers from the Pacific coast.

History

It has not been determined accurately where the origin of the name of La Chorrera, but it is assumed that it is due to the large number of waterfalls that exist, which include: El Chorro de La Chorrera, El Chorro Trinidad, El Chorro de Canoa Quebrada and others of less importance.