The setting is Parará Purú, a settlement of the Emberá people, located in Panama's interior in the Chagres National Park above the banks of the Río Chagres, which feeds the legendary Panama Canal.

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The ruling, the first of its kind in Colombia, restores the territory in Choco department to the 7,270-person Embera Katio tribe ... return the land to the native tribe that previously lived ...