Jaqué | |
Settlement Type: | Corregimiento |
Pushpin Map: | Panama |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Panama |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Darién |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Chepigana |
Established Title: | Established |
Area Land Km2: | 1043.9 |
Area Footnotes: | [1] [2] |
Population As Of: | 2010 |
Population Total: | 2386 |
Population Density Km2: | 2.3 |
Population Note: | Population density calculated based on land area. |
Timezone1: | EST |
Utc Offset1: | −5 |
Coordinates: | 7.5181°N -78.1625°W |
Jaqué is a corregimiento in Chepigana District, Darién Province, Panama, located west of the Panama-Colombia border. The closest neighboring settlement is Puerto Piña, about north.[3]
Jaqué is within the Darién Gap of the Pan American Highway, and no permanent roads connect it with the rest of Panama. The main means of travel are by plane and by boat. The town is served by the Jaqué Airport.
Jaqué is on the Pacific coast next to the mouth of the Jaqué River in Darién Province. The immediate area around Jaqué is mainly low lying with mangrove swamps and tropical rain forest. Further inland are highlands with temperate broadleaf and mixed forests.
Jaqué has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen climate classification Am). The mean temperature for Jaqué is 26.6C with an average high of 34.2C and low of 18.2C. The hottest month is March with an average high and low of 37C, and 18.5C. The coolest month is June with an average high and low of, and The two main seasons consist as the wet season and the dry season. The wet season starts in April until December with 2736mm of rainfall on average. The dry starts in January lasting until March. The amount of precipitation drops drastically to less than 30mm in February and March with average 119.9mm of rainfall. On average there are 114 days with rain a year. Humidity is usually high at or above 80 percent year round with an average of 85.8% a year. March being the lowest at 81.6 percent during the dry season, and September being higher at 88.2% during the wet season.
Jaqué had a population of 2,386 as of 2010;[1] with an estimated population of 2,882 in 2015[4] Its population as of 1990 was 1,819; its population as of 2000 was 2,244.[1]