Isthmus Department

Isthmus Department Departamento del Istmo
1824–1831
Isthmus Department (red) within Gran Colombia
Status	Department of Gran Colombia
Capital	Panamá
Religion	Roman Catholic
Government	Federal republic
History
• Established	1824
• Disestablished	1831
Population
• 1825 estimate	80,000
Currency	Peso
Preceded by Succeeded by Cundinamarca Department Province of Panama (New Granada) Province of Veragua (New Granada) Mosquito Coast (New Granada)
Today part of	Panama, parts of Costa Rica and Nicaragua

The Department of the Isthmus (Spanish: Departamento del Istmo, also known as the Isthmus Department or Department of Panama) was one of the departments of the Republic of Gran Colombia. It was created in 1824 and named after the Isthmus of Panama. It covered the territory of what is now the country of Panama and some disputed coastal territories farther northward along the Caribbean shoreline of present-day Costa Rica and Nicaragua (Mosquito Coast).

After the Thousand Days' War and the influence of the United States to build the Panama Canal the former Department of Gran Colombia separated from Colombia and became the Republic of Panama.