The Memory of the Afro-Caribbean Heritage of Panama in the Archive of Possibilities of Giana De Dier

El Pais

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Factuality

Ownership

Before being transformed by the gentrification processes, the Terraplén was a market, port, transit and sustenance. Built in 1915, this emblematic space, won to the Pacific Ocean and located at the entrance of the Old Town of Panama City, became an area of great commercial ferment and bustle. Its history is not only explained by its geographical location, but by the type of life it sustained: a daily economy, slow and persistent, woven by fisher…