The treacherous Darien Gap migrant route to the United States ... through the 70-mile stretch of jungle — the only land bridge between South and Central America — surged to record highs ...

Before-and-after photos of the Darien Gap show the small river port of Lajas ... migrant crossings along the route — the only land bridge between South and Central America — have all but ...

The Darien Gap, a stretch of nearly impenetrable rain forest along the border with Colombia, was transformed into a migratory highway in recent years as more than 1.2 million people from around ...

The Darien Gap was once largely untouched jungle running along the Colombia-Panama border, and thousands of Comarca Embera ...

Now, the makeshift migrant camp has become a ghost town. More than a thousand migrants a day would cross the harrowing Darien Gap — a rugged jungle passage between Colombia and Panama.

A little more than a year ago, the small Panamanian river port of Lajas Blancas was filled with a crush of people trying to make their way to the United States.