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Have you noticed that when you see old pictures of miners standing around their rockers and sluice boxes that many of them are wearing floppy straw hats? These popular and famous hats are known as "Panama" or "Jipijapa" hats. Jipijapa hats are handmade in:

Panama

Ecuador

Montecristi

 

Miner in Panama hat

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espanol

 

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