Solarte Island
Encyclopedia
Solarte Island also known as Nancy's Cay, (in Spanish
: Cayo Nancy) is an 8 km2 island located only 1 mile east of Bocas del Toro, in the Bocas del Toro Province
, Panama
. The two hundred Ngöbe Buglé fishing community lives on the island without electricity or telepphone system, capturing water from a well.
A medical facility, later known as Hospital Point (in Spanish
: Punta Hospital), was built upon a hill on the western end of the island by the United Fruit Company
for treatment of patients with yellow fever and malaria in 1899 but it was decommissioned and moved to Almirante in 1920.
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
: Cayo Nancy) is an 8 km2 island located only 1 mile east of Bocas del Toro, in the Bocas del Toro Province
Bocas del Toro Province
Bocas del Toro is a province of Panama. Its extension is 4,643.9 square kilometers comprising the mainland and nine main islands. The province consists of the Bocas del Toro Archipelago, Bahía Almirante , Laguna de Chiriquí , and adjacent mainland. The capital is the city of Bocas del Toro on Isla...
, Panama
Panama
Panama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The...
. The two hundred Ngöbe Buglé fishing community lives on the island without electricity or telepphone system, capturing water from a well.
A medical facility, later known as Hospital Point (in Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
: Punta Hospital), was built upon a hill on the western end of the island by the United Fruit Company
United Fruit Company
It had a deep and long-lasting impact on the economic and political development of several Latin American countries. Critics often accused it of exploitative neocolonialism and described it as the archetypal example of the influence of a multinational corporation on the internal politics of the...
for treatment of patients with yellow fever and malaria in 1899 but it was decommissioned and moved to Almirante in 1920.