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The article aims to relate the urban development model implemented in Panama with the changes experienced in the Juan Díaz River Basin. The urban disorder, the depredation of the environment and its direct consequence for the population, the flooding in the middle and lower reaches, is the product of leaving to the free forces of the market, the organization of a territory that produces it under capitalist logic: the obtaining always the maximum profit.