Panama Information Weather: Temperatures are high across the whole country throughout the year, though cooler at high altitudes. The rainy season lasts from May to November. Rainfall is twice as heavy on the Pacific coast as it is on the lowlands of the Caribbean coast. Required Clothing: Lightweight cottons and linens are worn, with rainwear advisable, particularly in the rainy season. Warmer clothes are needed in the highlands. Area: 75.517 km². Population: 3.116.000 inhabitants (2003) Population density: 41,3 inhabitants per km². Capital: Panama City. Population: 463.093 (2000). Geography: Panama is located in the southern part of Central America. It has borders with Colombia in the southeast and Costa Rica in the west. Is bathed by the Caribbean Sea to the north and the south Pacific Ocean. The region of 'The Interior', ranging from the Azuero Peninsula to the central mountains, is characterized as an area of plains and hills with a savannah vegetation. The Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean are linked by the Panama Canal was begun in 1903 and opened in 1914. This channel passes through a natural gap formed by the mountains of Talamanca and the San Blas. Its actual length is 65 km, however the length of the channel from deep water areas where navigation is possible is 80 km. Only a quarter of the country is inhabited. What to visit in Panama? • Tour the canal. • Visit the Historical District • Native Communities: the natives to St. Blases, the Emberáses, the Ngöbe-buglé. • Journey by Train: pass one day in Columbus traveling in train , a journey for the banks of the canal • Pineapple Plantation: Experince life in a tipycal Caribbean Pineapple Plantation • Walk for the Calzada de Amador Street: A perfect place to relax him and to enjoy of the picturesque sight of the city, from the bay. walk , practice the jogging, take a walk in bicycle or enjoyment of any one of his restaurants. • Visit the Anthropological Museum Queen Torres de Araúz: excellent. • Visit the museum of the Interoceanic Canal: the museum finds on the plaza cathedral, in St. Philip, the colonial neighborhood of the city that it is being restored. ideal place for a complementary tour. • Visit my PUEBLITO. A carbon copy of a up-country small town of beginnings of the century XX. public offices, stores, a school and a tiny church surround a the stone plaza and his source. a dedicated museum to "La Pollera" - the feminine dress national of Panama, and folkloric spectacles the weekends, they make of my Pueblito a place that the tourist must not be allowed to tour. • Taboga Island:  Take a walk in ferry to Taboga's island, situated in the pacific entrance of the Panama Canal. • Ecoturístic Options:       • Gamboa Rainforest Resort       • The Natural Park forestal reserves placed, surprisingly, within bounds of the city capital.       • The Monument “Natural Barro Colorado”, placed in the Lago Gatún Island.       • The Canopy Tower, located to half hour of the city.