Cerro Punta, Chiriquí
| Cerro Punta | |
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| Corregimiento | |
 Cerro Punta
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| Coordinates: 8°51′N 82°34′W / 8.850°N 82.567°WCoordinates: 8°51′N 82°34′W / 8.850°N 82.567°W | |
| Country |
 Panama
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| Province | Chiriquí |
| District | Tierras Altas |
| Area | |
| • Land | 105.1 km2 (40.6 sq mi) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 7,754 |
| • Density | 73.8/km2 (191/sq mi) |
| Population density calculated based on land area. | |
| Time zone | EST (UTC−5) |
Cerro Punta is a city and corregimiento in Tierras Altas District, Chiriquí Province, Panama. Cerro Punta is located in Panama's western highlands at an altitude is 6,500 feet (2,000 metres), just south of the Continental Divide. Many of the inhabitants of the village and the surrounding areas are indigenous Native Americans. The climate, like the rest of Panama, is tropical with a short dry season and rainy season that extends about 9 – 10 months of the year. Night time temperatures are often cool due to Cerro Punta's relatively high elevation. During the 1970s much of the land was used for cultivating strawberries; households also maintained small mixed-vegetable gardens. The village can be reached by traveling north from the Pan-American highway.
Cerro Punta is named after a hill with that forms which is the highest point of the village at 2300 meters. The original name Cerro de Punta, original name is credited to the Chircana poet Caval Beatriz Miranda, who taught grade school in Cerro Punta. In the 1940s in a meeting to choose the name of the town said: "Cerro Punta your name is written in your mountains."
Cerro Punta has a fairly rugged terrain, with small plains, where most people live. Outside the main area of the city the houses are widely spaced and the surrounding area is cultivated.
Chiriqui is the most mountainous and highest district in Panama.
The township is divided into villas such as Guadalupe, Bajo Grande, Entre Ríos, Las Nubes, La Garita, Barrio del Bajito, Las Miranda, Barrio 6, El Pueblo, Las Cumbres, Alto Pineda, El Barrio de la Chacha, Nueva Suiza, Alto Bambito; all of which are situated above 2,000 meters.
Average annual temperatures range between 10 °C and 15 °C
Frost snow in crops
Have been recorded minimum temperatures of 0 °C to -1 °C. The minimum temperatures are not welcome by the community in cases of hail because it is a purely agricultural village and hailstorms cause this phenomenon which causes damage to crops such as potatoes, lettuce, coffee and others.
It has a land area of 105.1 square kilometres (40.6 sq mi) and had a population of 7,754 as of 2010, giving it a population density of 73.8 inhabitants per square kilometre (191/sq mi). Its population as of 1990 was 5,682; its population as of 2000 was 6,860.
60% white and mestizo, 30% indigenous, 10% foreign.
The economy is based on agriculture. The land is very fertile as a result of being on the slopes of a dormant volcano and the coolness and wetness resulting from the elevation. Northern Chiriqui has a different kind of weather the rest of the country, provides the enabling environment to practice a type of seed would be impossible to practice in the rest of the country because it is merely located in Central tropical, facing the Caribbean.
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