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Panama is the name of the country, the name of its capital but also the name of the most developped province of the country.
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Panama city is one of most important banking center in Americas.
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Panama city hosts 430 299 persons (2019)
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The first source of revenu is the Panama Canal (about 1 billion USD/year) an)
Tourism is about 12% of the PIB in 2019
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The town offers several profiles: the modern city with its many buildings, the colonial quarter but also the old city ruins (UNESCO patrimony).
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Franck Gehry did design the Bio diversity museum in Amador. Panama counts with many marinas, roof top bar & restaurants, discos, etc.. a really fun place to stay is casco Viejo ( colonial quarter) where the presidency is also located.
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Panam city counts with many museums including the Molas museum and the Panama Canal museum.
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Panama city is known as the safest city of Latin America.
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Panama city offers many parks as: the metropilitan, the Chagres, camino de cruces, Soberania. The Summit is a park as well as a zoo: one can observe the eagle Harpia, the national animal of Panama and many other especies.
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The province also includes the Pacific ocean coasts and the archipielago of Las Perlas, Taboga and Otoke.
The Islands were frequently used by pirates and were relatively undisturbed until the 1960s and 1970s when the building of the resort on Contadora took place to which the Shah of Iran retreated in 1979
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The fish market in townand and MercaPanama outside the city are to be visited. The fish market counts with a welknown popular restaurant.
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Panama: “the bridge of the world and the heart of the universe“