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Bastimentos Island
Bastimentos Island (in Spanish: ''Isla Bastimentos'') is an island with eponymous town, and corregimiento located in the Bocas del Toro District and archipelage of Bocas del Toro Province, Panama. The island is about , one of the largest in Panama.
Bastimentos had a population of 1,954 as of 2010, giving it a population density of .〔 Its population as of 1990 was 988; its population as of 2000 was 1,344.〔
Often considered the more relaxed alternative to the busy streets and bars of Bocas del Toro District but at only 10 minutes by water taxi Isla Bastimentos is becoming an increasingly popular destination for backpackers. Isla Bastimentos National Marine Park encompasses a large portion of Bastimentos Island, Zapatilla Cays, in addition to the waters and mangroves that surround the island. The western tip of the island, better known as Bastimentos, is clearly visible from Bocas town, and is not part of the National Park itself. There are several private residences here.
==History==
In 1727 the coast here witnessed the demise from tropical disease of much of the fleet of Francis Hosier.〔Clark, J. C. D. (1994), (''Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism'' ), Cambridge University Press, p. 161, ISBN 0-521-47885-5〕 It is estimated that more than 4.000 out of the 4.750 men and officers who sailed with Hosier during the three-year expedition perished on the voyage.〔Marley, David (2008), (''Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the Western Hemisphere'' ), ABC-CLIO, p. 376, ISBN 1-59884-100-9〕
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