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Darien is Panama's largest and poorest province. Bordering Colombia, the province hosts a 60-mile-deep jungle, the only breaking point of the Pan-American highway, linking the continent from south to north. Despite being one of the most dangerous jungles in the world, Darien is a transit location for thousands of refugees and migrants, most of them coming from Venezuela, Ecuador, Haiti, and African and South Asian nations. Panama has faced an unprecedented mixed movement crisis in the last two years. According to official statistics of the National Migration Service (SNM), from 2021 to 2022 nearly 400,000 people crossed through this area. In 2022, 248,284 people entered the country irregularly through Darien.