Day of Mourning and Remembrance in Panama

Mother's Day in Panama on December 8 (Día de la Madre);

Martyrs' Day in Panama on January 9 (is a Panamanian day of national mourning which commemorates the January 9, 1964 anti-American riots over sovereignty of the Panama Canal Zone);

Engineer's Day in Panama on January 26;

Carnival in Panama on February 15 (The five-day holiday begins on Monday before Ash Wednesday);

Constitution Day in Panama on March 1;

Old Panama Day or Panama Viejo Day on August 15 (in 1519, the first Spanish colony and the oldest European settlement, Panama Viejo, was founded on the Pacific coast in Central America);