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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.

The islands of the San Blas Archipelago of Panama are strung out along the Caribbean coast from the Golfo de San Blas to the Colombian border. San Blas is a series of 378 islands of which only 49 are inhabited by the fiercely independent Kuna Indians. A 20-minute plane ride away from Panama City. The Kuna Indians, who have minimal interference from the national government, have maintained their own economic system, language, customs and culture, with distinctive dress, legends, music and dance. The area is surrounded by reefs, some of the oldest in the world, and offer wonderful snorkeling opportunities.

The Kuna Indians are known for their decorative art, known as molas. The Molas are usually very bright and vibrant are often used as costumes. Kuna women make rainbow colored fabrics, emblazoned with fish, jungle animals, birds, geometric designs.

You can stay at the Yandup Lodge or the Sapibenega Lodge which are both accessible via Playon Chico airstrip. Furthermore to visit the villages of the Kuna Indians, or to take a guided snorkeling tour. Both hotels will provide you with guides for activities like this. Snorkling is absolutely fantastic with many corals and lots of fish. It is recommended to bring your own gear. Diving is not allowed in San Blas.

The men fish from canoes as they did before Columbus came.

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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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