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Mamoní Valley Preserve: Re-planting the devastated rainforest

Portobelo: The heart of Congo culture

Guna Yala: Panama's first autonomous indigenous region

Colón: Port to the Atlantic Ocean

Casco Viejo: Panama City's reconstructed neighborhood

The Mercado de Mariscos, Panama City’s famous seafood market, has been a cultural landmark since it was gifted to the city by the Japanese Embassy in 1995. At the time, the building was an enormous improvement from the previous reality of selling fish straight off the boats. But today, the market remains without air conditioning, without refrigeration and without a proper drainage system. Birds...

Panama City’s architectural identity is a mix of modernity and antiquity. It is the oldest city on the Pacific Coast of the Americas. The oldest neighborhood was settled over 500 years ago, and some of the city’s architecture from that time remains standing. But the city’s aesthetic identity is changing. Today, Panama City has the third highest concentration of skyscrapers in the Western Hemisp...

In the late 1980s, retrofitted school buses sped down the streets of Panama City blasting dancehall basslines. The buses, known as los Diablo Rojos, were the birthplace of a new genre of music. Songs on cassettes traveled through the city playing Jamaican reggae, with the melodies sung over in Spanish. The genre began as reggae en Espanol or reggae in Spanish, and later became known as Plena de...

Panama City’s inaccessible infrastructure makes getting around a difficult task for wheelchair users. Despite the existence of legislation ensuring accessibility for people with disabilities, such as Panamanian Law 42 of 1999, local disability leaders feel that the government has not met these standards. “The government must comply with the law,” said Alberto Mazillo, leader of Inclusión Somos ...

Gardi Sugdub is one of the 365 islands that make up the San Blas archipelago in the Guna Yala province of Panama. The island is home to 1307 Guna, a group of indigenous people that have lived throughout the archipelago for centuries, after being driven offshore by disease and venomous snakes. Now, the lack of space for a growing population and rising sea levels have made many Guna consider movi...

Molas are hand-made, embroidered pieces of fabric that reflect the life stories of indigenous Guna people and their culture. Many residents of Guna Yala live on crowded islands off the Caribbean coast. Despite limited resources, Guna women sometimes work for months on the intricate stitching work. Many molas are created with geometric patterns. Guna people believe the mola will protect them bec...