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Soledad Miria
fluently. The island is very poor, with huts, no floors, two
village light bulbs, and no bathroom plumbing. howev-
er, the island is not so poor that the people are starving.
Most of the kuna indians worship small handmade wood-
en idols. The island has one school, with about 6 class-
rooms. The school is the only place on the island that
has cement floors and walls. Older women in Solded Mi-
ra wear the traditional kuna indian clothing, while every-
one else wears normal clothes. The average family on the
island has a few buckets, a hut, maybe two hammocks, a
few machettes, and a pig.
Soledad Miria after the blaze. References
Soledad Miria is a small Caribbean island of Panama [1] ^ Thompson, Paul (December 29, 2006). "The island
with 1,014 inhabitants, lying at 9°26′42″N 78°53′59.63″W blown up by a gas cooker". Daily Mail (London).
/ 9.445°N 78.8998972°W / 9.445; -78.8998972. The island http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/
is only 700 metres long but is densely populated. At ap- news/
proximately 9:30 pm on December 26, 2006, a fire started news.html?in_article_id=425257&in_page_id=1770.
by the explosion of a gas cooker destroyed 39 buildings Retrieved 2007-01-05.
within 10 minutes, approximately half of those on the is- [2] "Incendio arrasa con la mitad de isla habitada por
land. 348 people were injured, but none died.[1] The is- indígenas en Panamá (Spanish Language
land was left with no potable water.[2] Many of the inhab- Newspaper)".
itants of the small island took to the sea in fishing boats http://www.radiolaprimerisima.com/noticias/
to avoid the flames.[1] resumen/7828. Retrieved 2006-12-28.
Soledad Miria is the home of the Kuna indians, where
most of the island speaks Tule. About 10% speak Spanish
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