Articles tagged with "Panama"
Panama sits nine degrees north of the equator, so the temperature is close to constant and the rain is not. What varies is which coast you are on and how far above the sea.
Panama is straightforward to enter and has two conditions that catch people out: a passport validity rule measured from your departure rather than your arrival, and a requirement to be able to show funds.
Panama has a clear dry season and a clear wet one, and the Caribbean side does not entirely agree with either. The country is sixty kilometers wide in places, which means you can cross from one weather system to the other before lunch.
Darien is the reason the Pan American Highway stops. It is a natural World Heritage property of exceptional richness, it is home to two Indigenous peoples, and it is the one part of the country the advice this cluster cites treats differently.
Panama has been a shortcut for as long as anyone has been crossing it. The 2025 inscription recognizes the road that did the job first, together with the towns at each end and the forts that defended them.
Portobelo and San Lorenzo are where the wealth of Spanish America met the Caribbean, and where the Royal Navy repeatedly came to take it. They are inscribed together, and they are inscribed in trouble.