Santiago de Veraguas is primarily a transit city, those who bet on the American line that crosses the most populous areas of the country. The city grew from a traditional institutional settings: the church, market, school, plaza, park, pharmacy, etc. It is a city that has not even 100 years and the buildings have no outstanding features are the focus of interest with the exception of Juan Demosthenes Arosemena Normal School. But my interest is to present some comments on the different building typologies and also because it's my hometown.
The various forms and flows are rather examples imported from elsewhere, a fairly distant echo delay of the form or mode of how to build the peoples of Azuero or City either Panama or the Caribbean bungalow vernacular housing. Another situation were the economic and structural constraints of both customers and builders. Example of this was the first decades of the century, in the thirties and forties when the city began to be established and built a large number of houses or wooden walls, a covered wooden structure and the coating of sheet metal or tile. It was a combination of tectonic regions as Parita Azuero, La Arena, Los Santos or Monagrillo, but in a more recent version. Until recently, the use of wood as building material was quite popular, which was reflected in these houses in both structural and ornamental details of housing including doors, windows, feet, friends, etc.
These examples are found within close enough street-between first and second, the first streets of the city, at least "Old Town." In the street the street was called "three strikes", the same was the hospital, the church and cemetery. Also I have to add what was the jail and the park. Are these examples the first signs of domestic buildings which still stand.
PS: For those who do not understand "after the bridge" is that region-to some imaginary point located after the Bridge of the Americas as a landmark that separates City Panama with interiordel country.
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