El María is a corregimiento located in the Las Palmas District of the Veraguas Province in Panama. It serves as a local administrative division within the country's interior.
The population of El María has fluctuated over recent decades, recorded at 1,610 in 1990 and decreasing to 1,406 by the year 2000. As of the 2010 census, the population was reported to be 1,077.