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Panama Canal Rainforest - Nature Was Never This Close
By The Panama Gringo | May 9, 2007
The Panama Canal rainforests are the most accessible pristine rainforests in the world. Just minutes from Panama City in the former American Canal Zone, now Soberania National Park, they are home to exotic nature and outstanding ecotourism attractions. A veritable treasure of nature, these 50,000 acres of pristine rainforest host 105 species of mammals, 525 species of birds and 124 species of reptiles and amphibians.
Recently, a well traveled travel writer told us that she had traveled to the deepest part of the Amazon, but not seen nearly as much nature in the Amazon as she saw in the Panama Canal Rainforest…just 30 minutes from the modern metropolis of Panama City.
A travel article in Los Angeles Times reports that the writer saw 5 species of monkeys in a trip to Monkey Island in Gatun Lake, part of the Panama Canal water complex-not unusual.