The dollar is the de facto currency; the Panamanians refer to it as the balboa, named for explorer Vasco Nuñez de Balboa who "discovered" the Pacific Ocean and claimed it for Spain.
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Don’t worry about exchanging U.S. dollars in Panama
July 31, 2011 by
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