The seven peoples are the Ngäbe, Buglé, Guna, Emberá, Wounaan, Naso and Bri Bri. The Ngäbe are the largest group. The Guna are famous for their bright island homes on a long string of small islands called Guna Yala on the Caribbean coast.
The Guna are especially well known for a beautiful kind of stitched cloth called a 'mola'. Molas are made by sewing several layers of brightly coloured cotton on top of each other and then carefully cutting away pieces to reveal pictures - birds, fish, flowers, geometric patterns. Each mola is unique and can take weeks to make.
The Emberá and Wounaan peoples, who live in the Darién rainforest, are famous for two things: their beautifully painted bodies (using a dark blue dye made from a fruit called jagua), and the intricate baskets they weave from palm fibre. Their baskets are kept in museums all over the world.
Each Indigenous group has its own language - that means seven languages besides Spanish in one country. In some communities, schools teach in both the local language and Spanish, so that children grow up speaking two languages from the very start.