El Caño
Town and corregimiento in Coclé, Panama
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El Caño is a town and corregimiento in Natá District, Coclé Province, Panama. It has a land area of 86 square kilometres (33 sq mi) and had a population of 3,351 as of 2010, giving it a population density of 38.9 inhabitants per square kilometre (101/sq mi).[1] Its population as of 1990 was 2,936; its population as of 2000 was 3,276.[1]
El Caño is named after a nearby waterfall found in a creek whose waters end in a nearby river.[2]
Archaeological significance
In 2010, at El Caño, a Pre-Colombian cemetery was discovered. It contained numerous preserved bodies and gold artifacts from a pre-Columbian culture.[3]
