El Cristo is a town and corregimiento in 阿瓜杜爾塞區, Coclé Province, Panama. 該市面積為113平方公里(44平方英里),2010年時人口為4,017,故其人口密度為35.5名居民每平方公里(92名居民每平方英里).[1] Its population as of 1990 was 3,393; its population as of 2000 was 3,852。[1]
It is one of the oldest towns in the region. First, in pre-Columbian times it was inhabited by an aboriginal community for a period of several centuries. According to studies by the archaeologist Cook, this community is similar to the pre-Columbian site of the Sierra at the edge of Santa Maria. Later, in colonial times, the history of El Cristo goes back to the founding of Nata, by which time El Cristo was a cattle farm of the Spanish. The town possesses a Christmas Tree, renowned for being the highest in Central America.[來源請求]