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The province was officially established on May 26, Temple of the Catholic Church of Remedios
1849, when Panama was still part of Colombia. Casa De Obaldía is located in the Bolívar
By Law 19 of 1984, the temple of the Catholic
Several years later, President Abraham Lincoln of
Church of Remedios was declared a national neighborhood, in the district of David, province
the United States proposed Chiriquí as a prime
historic monument. The construction of this of Chiriquí. This residence was built in 1834,
location for Linconia, a colony for free blacks in the
United States. Catholic church, run by the Vicentine order, is inhabited until 1968, at that time by the family
Chiriquí was also the province where Manuel related to the creation of Nuevo Cristóbal at the of the former President of New Granada on
Noriega rose through the military ranks in the late end of the 1910s. It was built between 1920 and several occasions, and intellectual author of the
20th century. Chiriquí was at the heart of a brief 1921; the builders were Grebien & Martinz. Like province of Chiriquí, Don José De Obaldía. As
pro-democracy guerrilla movement in the late other Zoneite churches, it has two floors and the it became uninhabited, over time, this structure
1960s and early 1970s. nave for worship occupies the upper level; The deteriorated and even many of the furniture
HISTORICAL MONUMENTS OF THE PROVINCE ground floor was designed for meetings and and artifacts that existed in it were stolen. It is
OF CHIRIQUÍ considered to be one of the structures that still
Sunday School.
GARITA OR OLD REMEDIOS
preserves the regional architecture of the
La Garita was a settlement of the town of
Spanish colony. This house was donated to the
Remedios. In that area there are currently ruins of
the old dock, where people traveling to the capital National Historical Heritage in 1979 by his
embarked and the merchandise that was brought descendants, Dr. José Arsenio De Obaldía and
from Panama to be distributed throughout the his sister Doña Serafina De Obaldía vda. of
eastern Chirican sector was unloaded, since 1589. Abalia. It is the headquarters of the current
There are ruins of the old town, a well with a stone José de Obaldía Museum of History and Art,
base, the base of the old church, ruins of old which opened its doors to the public on June
prisons and petroglyphs of the indigenous settlers 23, 1986. It was declared a national historical
who inhabited that region for a long time. According monument by Law 37 of May 22, 1996.
to history, all the materials for the construction of
the bridges of the Inter-American highway over the
rivers of San Félix, Tolé, Santa Lucía, Fonseca,
among others, were also unloaded in this place.
From the top of this sector you can see the
Remedios coast, Coiba Island, Jicarón, Los
Morros, La Porcada and the Plaza de Las Lajas de
San Félix. By Law 19 of 1984, the ruins were
declared a national historical monument. where the
place known as Antiguo Remedios was built in
1569
.