Calle Panamá
Takes its name from the country of Panama, within the street grid of the Hispanoamérica neighborhood devoted to the nations and cities of Latin America.
The Hispanoamérica neighborhood, in Chamartín, arranges its streets like an atlas of Latin America, and Calle Panamá belongs to that family: it honors the isthmus that joins the two American continents.
The country’s name predates the conquest. It comes from a word in the Cueva language, spoken by the peoples of the isthmus, which the chroniclers translated as “abundance of fish.” Other versions link it to an abundance of butterflies or to the tree called panamá, under whose shade indigenous families would gather.
The neighborhood was mostly developed from the mid-1970s, on land of the then town of Chamartín de la Rosa. Among streets with names like Cuzco, Lima or Bogotá, Calle Panamá takes its place in that American geography traced across Madrid.