The harpies were, according to Greek mythology,\nlegendary beings in charge of taking food away from Phineus, king of Thrace, so\nthat he would not eat as a punishment imposed by Zeus for having revealed the\nsecrets of the gods of Olympus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They were monsters that had the face of a woman, ears\nof a bear, and the body of birds of prey, with powerful and sharp claws, that\nbrought with them the evils of the world: storms, plagues, misfortune. In\nshort, death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n National Bird of Panama<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Harpy Eagle is a very peculiar species, qualified\nas one of the strongest predators in the world. They measure around 90 to 100 centimeters in height,\nwith wings and a long tail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Its impetus and majesty are the fundamental qualities\nfor which it has been chosen as the national symbol of Panama. Symbolizing the\nfreedom and independence of citizens. Likewise, it is the largest of its kind\nin the southern and western hemisphere, it is also the strongest of the\nrapacious species that exists and the second largest in the world. It can reach\n100 centimeters in length, a wingspan of 200 centimeters and weigh up to 200\npounds. The Harpy Eagle is surpassed in size only by the Philippine Eagle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Darien Province as a whole, the Chagres National\nPark and the Palo Seco Protected Forest in Bocas del Toro are the regions with\nthe highest population of Harpy Eagles in the entire country. The trees that\nthey mostly use for their nesting are the cupid, the bean and the ceiba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The national bird of Panama is the Harpy Eagle, a majestic predator that is in danger of extinction due to deforestation and hunting. For this reason, to promote the preservation of this bird in the country and continue the growth of its population, April 10 was established as the official day to celebrate this majestic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4074,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070\/revisions\/4074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Compress_20220325_143643_3186.jpg\")
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