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The Darien Gap of Panama is so inhospitable to human settlement that even in 2021 we still cannot manage to build so much as a highway across it. In pre-columbian societies was it also known as a "border" between empires where few dared to travel?

by /u/Spaceisveryhard in /r/AskHistorians

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