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Protected areas of Panama include: *
Arraiján Protected Forest Arraiján is a city and corregimiento in Arraiján District, Panamá Oeste Province, Panama Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America. It is bo ...
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Bosque Protector de Arraiján A bosque ( ) is a type of gallery forest habitat found along the riparian flood plains of streams, river banks, and lakes. It derives its name from the Spanish word for "forest", pronounced . Setting In the predominantly arid or semiarid S ...
) * Boca Vieja Beach Wildlife Refuge ( Refugio de Vida Silvestre Playa Boca Vieja) * Calobre Springs Natural Monument ( Monumento Natural de Los Pozos de Colobre) in
Calobre District Calobre District is a Districts of Panama, district (''distrito'') of Veraguas Province in Panama. The population according to the 2000 Panamanian census, 2000 census was 12,184; the latest official estimate (for 2019) ia 12,159.Instituto Naci ...
* Cerro Ancón Reserve (
Reserva Cerro Ancón Ancón Hill (Spanish: ) is a high hill that overlooks Panama City, Panama, adjacent to the township of Ancón. It was used for administration of the Panama Canal and was under U.S. jurisdiction as a part of the Panama Canal Zone until being retu ...
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Colón Island Natural Reserve Colón, the primary Spanish translation of Christopher Columbus, may refer to: Places ;Argentina * Colón, Entre Ríos * Colón Department, Córdoba * Colón Department, Entre Ríos * Colón, Buenos Aires ;Colombia * Colón, Nariño * Coló ...
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Colón Island Colón Island (Spanish: ''Isla Colón'') is the northernmost and main island in the Bocas del Toro Archipelago located in Bocas del Toro Province, Panama. The capital city of the province, Bocas del Toro, is located on the island and is one of ...
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Forestal Canglón Reserve Forestal Canglon Reserve is a protected area in Darien Province, Panama. The 31,650 ha reserve includes lowland tropical forest.Filo del Tallo Hydrological Reserve *
Metropolitan Natural Park The Metropolitan Natural Park (Parque Natural Metropolitano) is a protected area located in Panama City, Panama. It is the only wildlife refuge in the city. The origins of this park date back to 1974, when the first steps were taken for the optim ...
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Parque Natural Metropolitano The Metropolitan Natural Park (Parque Natural Metropolitano) is a protected area located in Panama City, Panama. It is the only wildlife refuge in the city. The origins of this park date back to 1974, when the first steps were taken for the optim ...
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Narganá Wilderness Area Nargana Wilderness Area is a reserve in Guna Yala, Panama run by the Guna people. The reserve extends from the Caribbean Sea coast to the crest of the Cordillera de San Blas, which forms part of the Continental Divide of the Americas. It border ...
(Area Silvestre de Narganá) *
Punta Patiño Natural Reserve Punta is an Afro-Indigenous dance and cultural music deeply rooted in the cultural traditions of the Garifuna of Honduras. It heavily incorporates West African/Central African drumming, the dance primarily of Angola and Congo origins. The musi ...
* San Lorenzo Protected Area * Serrania del Bagre Biological Corridor *
Comarca A ''comarca'' (, , , ) is a traditional region or local administrative division found in Portugal, Spain, and some of their former colonies, like Brazil, Nicaragua, and Panama. The term is derived from the term ''marca'', meaning a "march, mark ...
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Kuna Yala Kuna may refer to: Places * Kuna, Idaho, a town in the United States ** Kuna Caves, a lava tube in Idaho * Kuna Peak, a mountain in California * Kuna Pelješka, a village in the Orebić municipality, Croatia * , a village in the Konavle mun ...
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Chagres River The Chagres River (), in central Panama, is the largest river in the Panama Canal's drainage basin. The river is dammed twice, and the resulting reservoirs—Gatun Lake and Lake Alajuela—form an integral part of the canal and its water ...
* Swamps and Wetlands of the
Bay of Panamá The Panama Bay () is a large body of water off the coast of southern Panama, at . It is a part of the greater Gulf of Panama. Pollution Problems The Panama Bay is considered to be in an eutrophic state by the World Resources Institute. This is ...
( Manglares y Humedales de la Bahía de Panamá) * Humedales del Golfo de Montijo *
Lago Alajuela Lake Alajuela () is an artificial lake in the Chagres River basin. The lake is bounded by the Madden Dam and linked to the Panama Canal. Lake Alajuela serves as a reservoir for the canal, which lies to the lake's southwest. It was created in 19 ...
* Cienega de las Macanas (La Macanas Cienega) * Parque Central * Manglares (swamp / wetland areas) * Palo Seco Forest Reserve ( Bosque Protector de Palo Seco) *
Isla Solarte Solarte Island (in Spanish: ''Isla Solarte''), also known as Nancy's Cay, (in Spanish: ''Cayo Nancy'') is an 8 km2 island located only 1 mile east of Bocas del Toro, in the Bocas del Toro Province, Panama. The two hundred Ngöbe Buglé fi ...
(Solarte Island, part of which is in a National Marine Park) * Wizard Beach on Isla Bastimentos (Bastimentos Island) near Parque Nacional Marino Isla Bastimentos * Yeguada Lagoon Forst Reserve (
Reserva Forestal La Yeguada Reserve wine is wine of a higher quality than usual, a wine that has been aged before sale, or both. Traditionally, winemakers would reserve some of their best wine rather than sell it immediately, coining the term. In some countries the use of t ...
) at the Yeguada Lagoon ( Laguna Yeguada) * San San-Pond Sak
Humedal Ramsar San San-Pond Sak San San-Pond Sak is a wetland lagoon area in Panama, spanning 16,125 hectares (39,850 acres), it is the home of the Bocatorian and Ngäbe people, Ngäbe indigenous people. The lagoon is listed by the Ramsar Convention group as a site of interna ...
* Barú Volcano (
Volcán Barú The Volcán Barú (also Volcán de Chiriquí) is an active stratovolcano and the tallest mountain in Panama, at high. It lies about off the border of Costa Rica. It is also the twelfth highest peak in Central America. Due to its height and the ...
) * Fortuna Forest Reserve ( Reserva Forestal De Fortuna)


National parks

National parks A national park is a nature park designated for conservation (ethic), conservation purposes because of unparalleled national natural, historic, or cultural significance. It is an area of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that is protecte ...
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Panama Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America. It is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and ...
( List of national parks of Panama) include: * Altos de Campana National Park *
Barro Colorado Island Barro Colorado Island is located in the man-made Gatun Lake in the middle of the Panama Canal. The island was formed when the waters of the Chagres River were dammed to form the lake in 1913. When the waters rose, they covered a significant part ...
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Cerro Hoya National Park Cerro Hoya National Park is a protected area in south-western Panama. Geography The park is located in the south-western portion of the Azuero Peninsula. Cerro Hoya () is the highest peak in the park, and the park's namesake. The park also cont ...
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Chagres National Park Chagres National Park is a nature park and protected area created in 1986 located in the Panamá and Colón provinces, in the Eastern sector of the Panama Canal with a total surface area of . The park extends across the Chagres Highlands, a gro ...
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Coiba National Park Coiba () is the largest island in Central America, with an area of , off the Pacific coast of the Panamanian province of Veraguas Province, Veraguas. It is part of the Montijo District of that province. History Coiba separated from continenta ...
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Darién National Park Darién National Park () is a World Heritage Site in Panama. It is about from Panama City, is the most extensive of all national parks of Panama, and is one of the most important World Heritage Sites in Central America. Geography The Darién ...
* Omar Torrijos "El Cope" National Park * Chiriquí Gulf National Marine Park *
Isla Bastimentos National Marine Park Isla Bastimentos National Marine Park (in Spanish: ''Parque Nacional Marino Isla Bastimentos'') is a marine park located in the Bocas del Toro Archipelago, Panama. The park covers 13,226 hectares. History The park has been managed and protect ...
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La Amistad International Park La Amistad International Park, or in Spanish , formerly La Amistad National Park, is a transboundary protected area in Latin America, management of which is shared between Costa Rica ( Caribbean La Amistad and Pacific La Amistad Conservation Area ...
* Las Cruces Trail National Park * Portobelo National Park *
Sarigua National Park Sarigua National Park (''Parque Nacional Sarigua'') is a national park situated on the Azuero Peninsula in the Herrera Province of Panama, approximately from Panama City Panama City, also known as Panama, is the capital and largest city of Pa ...
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Soberanía National Park Soberanía National Park (''Parque Nacional Soberanía'') is a national park in Panama near the banks of the Panama Canal in the provinces of Panamá Province, Panamá and Colón Province, Colón, some from Panama City. The Chagres River runs t ...
* Volcan Baru National Park


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