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Panama's geographic location

Panama is located southeast of Central America, bordered on the north by the Caribbean Sea, south by the Pacific Ocean, east by Colombia and west by Costa Rica. Its Capital is Panama city.

It is a place meeting of several cultures. In its territory is located the Panama Canal, an important work that facilitates shipping between the Atlantic coast and the Pacific Ocean and has a great influence on world trade. Due to its geographical position currently offers the world an extensive platform of marine services, commercial real estate and financial services, where we highlight the "Zona libre de Colón", second in the world.

Its population exceeds by some three million inhabitants, which boasts a privileged position in various statistics of growth and development in Latin America, as per capita income, level of economic growth, globalization and life expectancy.

Scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the University of Costa Rica have identified a new coral species in 2011: Pacifigorgia marviva, discovered at Coiba National Park in Panama. This find increases the recorded number of this life form to a total of 35. The twenty species in Panama represent more than half the species of this genus identified to date. The description of this new species was published in the “Journal of the marine Biological Association”, of the United Kigdom. The Coral was named in honor to Erika Knie, whose love and passion for the ocean led her to create and preside over the Marviva Foundation, an international NGO dedicated to the protection of marine life. Her singular philanthropic vision and her continued support for the implementation of laws to protect marine resources inspired a change in their management at a regional level.

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Beaches and world class waves:

Surfers are always looking for something special in each wave and there's a lot of unique discoveries to be in the ocean that touches Panama's 1500 miles(2414 kilometers) of coastline. It helps those other factors, such as the country's low crime rate, making Panama one of the safest places in Central America right now and the use of the United States dollar as legal tender makes a surf trip down there a bit more enticing. For those who know how to surf, or wish to learn, Panama is bordered by two oceans from which to choose, the Caribbean and Pacific. This allows locals and visitors to take advantage of appropriate weather and wave conditions, and some of the most popular surf spots are within an hour or two from the Panama City center. And, ponder this: Nowhere else in the entire world, can you surf good waves on the coast of two oceans in a single day!. In Panama you can surf all year round; beaches are uncrowded, warm and paradisaical. Its just a matter of knowing what's what and when.

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Panama's geographic location

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