Darien
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Places
Central America
- Darién Gap, break in the Pan-American Highway between Colombia and Panama
- Darién National Park
- Darién Province
- Gulf of Darién
- "... a peak in Darien", phrase in Keats's poem "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer", referring to Darién Province
South America
- Darién extends into Colombia. It does not end at the modern Panamanian-Colombian border, although modern Panama's Darién Province and Darién National Park do. At some times in the past, Darién was a single area that encompassed lands on both sides of the modern border.
- The ruins of Santa María la Antigua del Darién, long thought to have been in Panamá, have been located in Colombia.
People
First name
- Darien Angadi (1949–1984), British actor
- Darien Boswell (1938–2018), New Zealand rower
- Darien Brockington (born 1979), American singer
- Darien Fenton (born 1954), New Zealand politician
- Darien Ferrer (born 1983), Cuban volleyball player
- Darien Graham-Smith (born 1975), British journalist
- Darien Sills-Evans (born 1974), American actor
Surname
- Georges Darien (1862–1921), French writer
Ships
- SS Darien (1924), a turbo-electric refrigerated cargo ship
- Darien II, World War II refugee ship
Fictional characters
- Camila Darién, in Mexican telenovela Pasión
- Darien Fawkes, in The Invisible Man television series, 2000–2002
- Darien Lambert, a character in the 1990s television series Time Trax
- Darien Maugrim, a character in The Fionavar Tapestry novels by Guy Gavriel Kay
- Darien Shields (a.k.a. Tuxedo Mask), a protagonist in the anime Sailor Moon
Other uses
- Darién, brand of bananas distributed in the U.S. by Turbana (company)
- Darien pocket gopher, rodent native to Panama
- Darien scheme, 17th century attempt to create a Scottish colony called "Caledonia"
- Darien Spirit, a progressive rock band signed to Charisma Records
- An alternative name for the extinct Cueva language spoken by the Cueva people
See also
- Darian (disambiguation)
- Dairen, the Japanese name for Dalian, China
- Darion (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles beginning with Darien
- All pages with titles containing Darien
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