Guabito
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| name = Guabito
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| settlement_type = Corregimiento and town
| pushpin_map = Panama
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| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{flag|Panama}}
| subdivision_type1 = Province
| subdivision_name1 = Bocas del Toro 20px
| subdivision_type2 = District
| subdivision_name2 = Changuinola District
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| area_land_km2 = 168.8
| area_footnotes = [http://www.contraloria.gob.pa/inec/archivos/P3601Cuadro11.xls "Cuadro 11 (Superficie, población y densidad de población en la República...)" [Table 11 (Area, population, and population density in the Republic...)
| population_as_of = 2010
| population_total = 8387
| population_density_km2 = 49.7
| population_note = Population density calculated based on land area.
| blank1_name = Climate
| blank1_info = Tropical rainforest climate(af)
| timezone = Eastern Standard Time
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Guabito is a corregimiento and town in the Changuinola District of the Bocas del Toro Province of Panama.{{citation|url=http://world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gpro&lng=en&des=wg&geo=-167&srt=npan&col=abcdefghinoq&msz=1500&pt=c&va=x&geo=358209738 |title=World Gazetteer - Guabito, Panama |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130209120639/http://world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gpro&lng=en&des=wg&geo=-167&srt=npan&col=abcdefghinoq&msz=1500&pt=c&va=x&geo=358209738 |archivedate=2013-02-09 |url-status=dead }} It is a small town located directly across the Rio Sixaola from Sixaola, Costa Rica. An elevated former railroad grade and bridge connects Guabito to Sixaola.{{citation|title=Moon Panama|publisher=Avalon Travel|date=November 2008|isbn=978-1-59880-085-2|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/panama0000fria}} This border crossing is popular with tourists going between Costa Rica and Bocas del Toro,{{citation|title=Costa Rica 2008|edition=2nd|year=2008|publisher=Fodor's Travel|isbn=978-1-4000-1803-1}} though few tourists stop in Guabito longer than necessary to clear Panamanian customs.
Guabito has a land area of {{convert|168.8|sqkm|sqmi}} and had a population of 8,387 as of 2010, giving it a population density of {{convert|49.7|PD/sqkm|PD/sqmi}}. Its population as of 1990 was 11,125; its population as of 2000 was 14,366.
References
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- [http://world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gcis&lng=en&des=wg&geo=-167&srt=npan&col=abcdefghinoq&msz=1500&pt=c&va=x World Gazeteer: Panama]{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} – World-Gazetteer.com
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Category:Populated places in Bocas del Toro Province
Category:Corregimientos of Bocas del Toro Province
Category:Costa Rica–Panama border crossings
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