PYC is the airport code for the airstrip at Playon Chico, a small island community in the Guna Yala region of Panama, the string of Caribbean islands long known as the San Blas Islands, off the northeast coast of the country. Playon Chico, known in the Guna language as Ukupseni, is one of the more populous of these islands, home to the Guna people, an indigenous nation who govern their own territory and keep their traditional way of life, culture and language. The San Blas islands are a scattering of hundreds of small, palm-covered coral islands and cays in clear turquoise water, famous for their beauty and for the Guna and their colourful handicrafts, the molas. Life here is by fishing, coconuts and the sea. Playon Chico is reached by small aircraft to its airstrip and by boat, with connections from Panama City over the mountains. The climate is warm and tropical, with a wetter season.
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