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One out of every three people in the world relies on rice as a main staple in their daily diet. Rice is a starch and can be eaten for every meal and can be sweet or spicy and is Panamanians most common food item. The yucca root is similar to the white potato and can be used as food or medicine purposes. The yucca root is about 9-15 inches long with a brown bark-like skin and with meat. It can grated and put into soups and can also be ground and milled into flour. It has high amounts of vitamin C and carbohydrates. The yucca is a very good source of fiber. Yucca root is also found in many lotions and shampoos.
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 LINKS TO RECIPES [|PapayaCreamsicleSmoothie][|YinYangPapayaDessert] 3,232,000 Capital: 75,517 square kilometers (29,157 square miles) Language Spanish, English Religion: Roman Catholic, Protestant || Currency: balboa, US dollar || C[|.I.A world fact book panama page] A **constitutional monarchy** is the type of government panama has and is a form of constitutional government, where either an elected or hereditary monarch is the head of state, unlike in an absolute monarchy, where in the king or the queen is the sole source of political power, as he or she is not legally bound by the constitution.
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Panama fun facts When the Spanish explorers discovered the pacific ocean the where on panama. Panama is the southernmost country in Central America. Panama has set multi world records in the area of bird watching & fishing, as it shelters more birds than United States and Canada combined. Panama houses over 10,000 different plants species, including 1,200 varieties of orchids, 678 ferns and more than 1,500 varieties of trees. Panama is the only place in the world where you can see the sun rise on the Pacific and set on the Atlantic. Senator John McCain was born in Panama, in the Canal Zone that was, at the time considered U.S. Territory. Panama City is the only capital city in the world that has a rain forest within the city limits.

 FAMOUS PEOPLE FROM PANAMA> Danilo Pérez (latin jazz piano player), Rubén Blades (singer, songwriter, actor), Los Rabanes (latin rock), Rogelio Pretto (voiceovers, actor), Omar Alfano (songwriter for several artists including Miami Sound Machine). In sports: Roberto Duran, Rolando Blackman (Dallas Mavericks), Mariano Rivera (New York Yankess), Rodney Carew, Aileen Coparropa (among the world's best 100 swimmers), Roberto Kelly (baseball), Roquero Alcazar (AMB), Dely Valdes (soccer), and Laffit Pincay who was the first jockey to reach the 9,000 winnings milestone, breaking the previous record by Bill Shoemaker.