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Darien

Original name of the isthmus of Panama. One of the first ships that landed in Panama was named after Saint Daria, and the region was then named Darien. Keats wrote a poem about Balboa crossing the Mountains of Darien to view the Pacific Ocean.

"He stared at the Pacific--and all his men

Looked at each other with a wild surmise

Silent upon a peak in Darien."

by NameScholar February 13, 2010