It's a never ending source of confusion and bad translations. We (I'm from Panama) definitely consider ourselves "americanos" and the continent is for sure call

It's a never ending source of confusion and bad translations. We (I'm from Panama) definitely consider ourselves "americanos" and the continent is for sure called América. It is clearly geographically a continent. Nobody in normal speech talks about "las Américas". So "American" is translated as "estadounidense" (United Statesian).