El Chorrillo

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| settlement_type = Corregimiento

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| subdivision_name1 = Panamá

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| subdivision_name2 = Panamá

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| area_footnotes = {{cite web| url= http://www.contraloria.gob.pa/inec/archivos/P3601Cuadro11.xls | title=Cuadro 11 (Superficie, población y densidad de población en la República...)| trans-title= Table 11 (Area, population, and population density in the Republic...| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030354/http://www.contraloria.gob.pa/inec/archivos/P3601Cuadro11.xls |archive-date= March 4, 2016}} In {{cite web|title=Resultados Finales Básicos |trans-title=Basic Final Results |url=https://www.contraloria.gob.pa/inec/publicaciones/Publicaciones.aspx?ID_SUBCATEGORIA=59&ID_PUBLICACION=360&ID_IDIOMA=1&ID_CATEGORIA=13 |publisher=National Institute of Statistics and Census of Panama |access-date=May 26, 2015 |language=Spanish |url-status=dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20150710070123/http://www.contraloria.gob.pa/inec/Publicaciones/Publicaciones.aspx?ID_SUBCATEGORIA=59&ID_PUBLICACION=360&ID_IDIOMA=1&ID_CATEGORIA=13 |archivedate=July 10, 2015 }}

| population_as_of = 2010

| population_total = 18302

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El Chorrillo is a corregimiento within Panama City, in Panamá District, Panamá Province, Panama with a population of 18,302 as of 2010.

History

It was founded April 29, 1915, and was originally populated by immigrants working on the construction of the Panama Canal; many were from the Antilles. The impoverished area is the hometown of Manuel Noriega and was heavily damaged during the United States invasion of Panama in 1989.{{cite web|url=http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2011/12/11/9363044-noriega-returns-to-panama-a-largely-forgotten-man|title=Noriega returns to Panama a largely forgotten man |website= nbcnews.com|access-date=2014-06-02}} Other former residents of note include boxer Roberto Durán{{cite AV media| title= No Mas| type= documentary film|year= 2013| publisher= ESPN}} and poet Hector Miguel Collado.

Its population as of 1990 was 20,488; its population as of 2000 was 22,632.

Sport

El Chorillo is the only district in Panama with two first-division clubs - Chorrillo F.C. and Plaza Amador - in the Liga Panameña de Fútbol.

El Chorillo is the birthplace of hall of fame boxer Roberto Duran.

References

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{{Panamá Province}}

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Category:Corregimientos of Panamá Province

Category:Panamá District

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