Minor Basilica of St. James (Nata) Minor Basilica of St. James Church Natá.jpg Type Minor Basilica Invocation St. James Location Nata de los Caballeros, Cocle, Panama Flag of Panama.svg Use Catholic Worship Diocese Penonomé Order Secular Clergy Architecture Construction 1522 Baroque architecture
The Minor Basilica of St. James or simply Basilica Nata, officially declared as Church of Nata, is a Catholic church built in what is now known as Nata in Cocle Province, Republic of Panama. Its construction was started in 1522 and spent over a hundred years to complete. Completed in the last third of the seventeenth century and the late eighteenth century, is considered the cultural-religious architectural work of major historical significance bequeathed by the Spanish in Panamanian territory.