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- - - - At the moment, the ARAUCARIA Project is in execution, which is an initiative of the Spanish government and is currently being developed in 8 Latin American countries, which was presented at the United Nations (Earth Summit, New York 1997).
        Climate: The average annual temperature is about 26ºC and the average annual rainfall is around 3,500mm.
        Topography: On the island of Coiba, the coastal plains with elevations below one hundred meters predominate in the north and southeast of the island, while in the rest the low-elevation hills that barely exceed 200 meters in altitude constitute the dominant landscape.
        Water resources: In Coiba there are numerous rivers such as the Negro, with 20 kilometers in length and eight tributaries, the San Juan, with 18.5 km in length, and the Santa Clara, with 17 km in length.
        Biodiversity: Primary forests are those that predominate in Coiba, although there are also intervened forests as a result of the penal colony camps and the forest extraction of bygone times.
        1,450 species of vascular plants have been recorded with the presence of abundant specimens of ceiba (Ceiba pentandra), panama (Sterculia apetala), sepavé (Anacardium excelsum), tangaré (Carapa guianensis) and hawthorn cedar (Bombacopsis quinatum).
        Since 1993 and with the collaboration of the Spanish Agency for Cooperation, AECI, there is a biological station in the park that to date has registered 36 species of mammals, 147 of birds and 39 species of amphibians and reptiles, with a high degree of endemism, for example in ñeque (Dasyprocta coibae) and the howler monkey (Alouatta palliata coibensis) among mammals, and the Coiba-tailed spine (Cranioleuca dissita) among birds. Coiba is the only place in Panama where flocks of endangered scarlet macaws (Ara macao) can be seen today.
    - - CEBACO ISLAND:
        Beautiful island with pristine waters 30 minutes from Playa Reina. World class super wave, right and tubular, at the back of the island. The Island of Cébaco, which has very few inhabitants, which has allowed it to preserve its beauty and its virgin beaches, which makes it an earthly paradise for any tourist.
        The diversity of the tropical vegetation and the plantation allows the development of an ecological tourism project emphasizing the sites and activities that can be carried out on this Pacific island with an enviable climate, fauna and flora.
- - - - THE LAKE BAYANO
        Lake Bayano was created by damming the river of the same name located in the Province of Panama. Its main use and the objective for which it was created is the generation of electrical energy.
        The reservoir has an area of approximately 350 km2, it was completed in 1976. The fish fauna of Lake Bayano is quite different from that of Lakes Gatún and Alajuela.
- - - - The Chagres River, which as early as 1914 was dammed at the height of the Canal to form Gatun Lake, which for a long time became the largest artificial lake in the world.
        In 1935 the Chagres was dammed again creating the artificial lake Alajuela, today within the national park, with more than 5,000 hectares of surface and whose mission is to regulate the level of Gatún Lake.
        Today the Chagres is the only river in the world. The Chagres River is perfect for rafting, you can camp almost anywhere in the Park for bird watching or simply to enjoy a night in the tropical forest.
      - TUIRA RIVER
        Historical fact that is linked to this river is: In 1679 LA SONDA, together with the pirate JOHN CASON, attacked Portobelo. In 1680, the latter managed to take the town of El Real de Santa María.
        After going down the Tuira River, he reached the things of the Pacific, where he seized some ships. On April 23, 1680, he announced the new Panama City.
        
        BAYANO RIVER
        Located in Chepo It has an important function which: The electricity generation plant, built in the riverbed of this Bayano river, had an installed capacity of 150 megawatts, but with the expansion it can now produce 260 megawatts.
        The Bayano River; one of the most important in Panama.
        
        SANTA MARÍA RIVER
        Santa Maria with 173 km
        In Human Ecology in the Santa María River basin; activities such as pre-Columbian fishing and hunting are carried out.
        The Santa Maria River, the most important hydrographic basin of central provinces in the country, Chitré is almost totally embraced by this river and where the celebration of World Wetlands Day 2005 took place in the upper part of it.
        
        CHUCUNAQUE RIVER:
        The longest and most captivating river in Panama.
        From the high and steep peaks of the central mountain range we will cross to the Pacific slope of Panama, known since colonial times as the Darién, that vast region to the east of the Republic of Panama and which is covered by one of the youngest forests in the tropical areas of our planet, in which plants and animals of recent origin are found, since North and South America three million years ago were separated by a shallow sea.
        Only 5 million years ago that the seabed began to rise and form a chain of islands that would end up joining two continents with flora and fauna so different that even today they do not quite mix.
        
        The Chucunaque river valley is one of the many agricultural frontiers of Panama where the border that divides the rich and diverse tropical forest from the pasture of grass pastures.
        You can see the marked differences between the areas covered with forests and the areas open for agricultural exploitation and extensive livestock: the change in temperature, the lack of common species in the forest and the decrease in the quality and quantity of water are indicators that current land use by newly arrived settlers and individuals is a potential danger.
- - - - THE TATARCUNA
        The Tatarcuna with 1,875 m. El Tatarcuna, had a legend, where an Indian and a black woman appear: this one did not bathe, that one did.