Portobelo Panama

The New Colon-Panama City Highway: A Game Changer

Written by Evan Forbes from EyeOnPanama.com

The new highway from Panama City to Colon will change Panama’s Caribbean Coast. Both the upper and lower coast, Costa Arriba and Costa Abajo, of the Colon Province are undeveloped. The new highway completion makes the Caribbean coast only 45 minutes [...]

Getting as far away as possible from the city is always a good idea, if you deal with a big city on a daily basis. Bananas Resort is located on Isla Grande, just above La Guaira, and two hours away from Panama City. Bananas is a great way to enjoy the beautiful Caribbean sea without [...]

Panama’s strategic value as a land bridge from the Atlantic to the Pacific has long given it s fabled character among mariners. This was especially true in the last 16th and early 17th centuries when piracy was common in the sparkling blue waters of the Gulf of Panama.

Pirates were drawn to Panama by the promise [...]

Christopher Columbus discovered the Bay of Portobelo on 2 November 1502 on his fourth trip to America. Later, in 1586 the Spanish Crown send Field Master Juan de Tejada and the military engineer Juan Bautista Antonelli to select a place in order to prepare a defense plan for the Continent. They chose Portobelo as the [...]