Tourism Attractive sites in Chiriqui

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Beaches :                                                                                                                                               
01 Limones
02 Mellizas
03 Palo Blanco
04 La Barqueta                                                                        
05 San Lorenzo                                                                  
06 Las Lajas                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                                                   
Coral Reefs:
07 Paridas Island

National Reserves:
04 La Barqueta
07 Gulf of Chiriqui (Paridas Is)
08 La Amistad
09 Volcan Laggon
10 Baru Volcano
11 Fortuna

Lakes & Lagoons
09 Volcan Lagoon
12 Fortuna Lagoon

Thermal Water
13 Calderas
14 Galique
15 Cotito

Scenic Roads
16 Volcan - Cerro Punta
17 Dolega-Boquete
18 Gualaca - Punta Pena
19 Cerro Punta - Las Nubes - Volcan-Rio Sereno - Rio Sereno - Paso Canoa

Cities & Villages  
20 Boquete  
21 Cerro Punta
22 Volcan 
23 David                          
24 Las Lajas
25 Tole
26 Alanje
27 Boca Chica

Cascades
28 Chorcha
29 Cabello de Angel

Trails
30 Benjamin
31 Volcan Baru
32 Cerro Punta
33 Los Quetzales
34 Cerro Punta - Bocas del Toro
35 Cerro Punta - Boquete
36 Potrero Muleto

Other Attractions
37 Los Canjilones (Canion)
38 Devil's Jaw
39 Fortuna Damp
40 Indians Handicrafts
41 Coffe Plantation
42 Flowers Plantation
43 Horses Farm
44 Border
45 Fishing

Chiriqui Province

The province of Chiriqui is located at the west of the Republic of Panama having as limits, to the north, the province of Bocas del Toro and the Ngobe Bugle Reserve, to the west the Republic of Costa Rica, to the east the province of Veraguas and to the south the Pacific Ocean.

It has a surface of 6.476,2 km2, with a population of 368.790 inhabitants (2000) who occupy 87.509 houses. Politically it is divided in 13 districts: Alanje, Barú, Boquerón, Boquete, Bugaba, David, Dolega, Gualaca, Remedios, Renacimiento, San Lorenzo, San Felix, Tolé and Paso Canoas.

The more important cities and towns of the province are: David (the capital), Boquete, Puerto Armuelles, Concepción, Dolega, Alanje, Volcán, Cerro Punta, Gualaca, San Felix, Tole, Remedios and San Lorenzo.

The province is crossed from west to east for one of the more important communication ways of Central America: the Panamerican Highway. This route facilitates the visit to de different attractions of the region.

Chiriquí was populated, until the arrival of the Spanish, by different indigenous tribes (changuinas, zurias, boquerones, buricas, doraces, bugabas and gualacas) grouped under the generic name of guaymíes.

Its discovery attributes to the Spanish Gaspar de Espinosa, in 1519, being created the province the 26 of May of 1849, during the time at which Panama comprised of Columbia.

Its economy is mainly based on the agricultural and cattle grown, being the main food supplier for the rest of the Republic.

The tourism is beginning to take his first steps in the province that counts on sufficient attractive to become, in just a short time, in a destiny asked for by the national and international travellers