Migrants arrive in record numbers in Panama in 2022, data shows

FILE PHOTO: Migrants rest at a migrant camp, in Meteti, Darien province, Panama August 6, 2021. REUTERS/Erick Marciscano/File Photo

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Migrants arrived at record numbers in Panama in 2022, the Central American nation said Sunday, with most of them leaving Venezuela and crossing the dangerous Darien Gap region in an attempt to reach the United States.

With 248,283 migrants from different countries recorded by Panamanian authorities, the number for last year is equivalent to the total for more than a decade.