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Ciudad de Panamá

Today Ciudad de Panamá has the advantage of offering a great architectural diversity. The various styles of buildings which you can admire there originate in two distinct periods. The first is the colonial period, of which there remain some beautiful examples in Casco Viejo. The second, later, is associated the opening of the railway line connecting Colón and the town of Panamá, like with the construction of the channel.

The historical center of the Panamá news is in the sector of San Felipe, usually called Casco Viejo. It is there that you will find the majority of the buildings dating from the colonial time as well as a great number of residences of style.

Central Avenida, pedestrian partly and particularly animated, is the best access for the visit. You can see all this sector with foot in one day. In addition, some interesting buildings can also be visited in various sectors of Bella Vista and Calidonia.

Bocas Del Toro

Covered with an exuberant vegetation and sheltering the gigantic one Parks Internacional Amistad, one of the greatest zones protected from Central America, the province of Bocas del Toro bears definitely well its name of province of "green gold".

Boquete

Populated since 1880 by the peasants of the area and emigrants come from countries as different as Switzerland, old Yugoslavia, Germany and even the United States, Boquete is probably the most pleasant place of the province of Chiriquí.

Comarca de San Blas

Located along the north-eastern coast of Panamá, in the Caribbean Sea, Comarca de San Blas has the characteristic to be the only province of the country exclusively populated by an Amerindian population, Kunas, which calls their ground Kuna Yala. It is also the only one with being exclusively managed by an Amerindian population. So it is indexed under the name of comarca, meaning "area" or "territory", and not under the term of "province".

Islands and beaches of the province of Panama

If the richness of the fauna and the flora of Panamá is still too often ignored travellers, the same applies to the many islands and beaches of the province of Panamá which strew its Pacifique littoral.

Insulated and difficult to reach, the islands of Archipiélago of mow Perlas in set up the greatest group. Among these islands, most known without question Isla Contadora is.

 
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