Cocoa Plantation / Camino de Plantación
- ADDRESS: Parque Nacional Soberania, Av Omar Torrijos Herrera, Gamboa, Panama - Report a Problem
Venue Description: It is one of the favorite places for people who love bird watching. It is located within the Soberania National Park, half an hour by car from Panama City.
To get there, it is necessary to drive on the road that leads to Summit Municipal Park and continue to pay attention to the signs that indicate the entrance of the Plantation Road. You can get there by bus at the Albrook terminal, SACA (Gamboa) and down at the entrance to the trail.
The Plantation Trail has a length of approximately 7 kilometers that are walked in 3 or 4 hours round trip.
The route is very interesting since paying attention to nature is very easy to appreciate its surroundings. This path is very famous for being there where you can see a lot of birds, especially in the morning and afternoon, and it is also possible to see monkeys titis and howler monkeys.
If you are interested in plants, the Plantation path (as its name implies) is your place. There you can see large amount of vegetation, large trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants, ferns, inflorescences; There are even some trees that have been marked with their names to be recognized. As many times as I have gone I have noticed many Nazarene trees (Peltogyne purpurea), cuipo (Cavallinesia platanifolia), zamias, many lianas, mushrooms everywhere, and I am sure that much more.
This place is very exotic, it is said that it was a road made during the construction of the Panama Canal in 1910 to unite the population of "Empire" to "the Waterfalls Plantation". Along the way you can still find traces of what were plantations of cacao, coffee and the precious rubber trees (Castile elastica), the last exotic species introduced in Panama.
On the way there is no difficult terrain, it is very easy as it is flat from beginning to end, but it is good to go in good sole shoes because of the amount of round stones that can disturb your feet. Very good to visit with family and stop at some of the benches that are on the way to snack. You can also travel with bicycles, if that is your preference. The trail can be complemented by a visit to the waterfall that is almost at the end, the trail ends at an intersection that links it with the Camino de Cruces.
Once I was on the road with some friends, we saw some lianas, and tried to chill Tarzan, we were in that long enough, the liana always could with our weight.
It is said that this road and its secondary jungle, was also used by US military to train Latino military.
There is usually no one in the Anam hut that is at the beginning of the road, but if you find the entrance has a value of 1 $ for national and 3 $ for foreigners.
Remember, the trash is yours, take it!
To get there, it is necessary to drive on the road that leads to Summit Municipal Park and continue to pay attention to the signs that indicate the entrance of the Plantation Road. You can get there by bus at the Albrook terminal, SACA (Gamboa) and down at the entrance to the trail.
The Plantation Trail has a length of approximately 7 kilometers that are walked in 3 or 4 hours round trip.
The route is very interesting since paying attention to nature is very easy to appreciate its surroundings. This path is very famous for being there where you can see a lot of birds, especially in the morning and afternoon, and it is also possible to see monkeys titis and howler monkeys.
If you are interested in plants, the Plantation path (as its name implies) is your place. There you can see large amount of vegetation, large trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants, ferns, inflorescences; There are even some trees that have been marked with their names to be recognized. As many times as I have gone I have noticed many Nazarene trees (Peltogyne purpurea), cuipo (Cavallinesia platanifolia), zamias, many lianas, mushrooms everywhere, and I am sure that much more.
This place is very exotic, it is said that it was a road made during the construction of the Panama Canal in 1910 to unite the population of "Empire" to "the Waterfalls Plantation". Along the way you can still find traces of what were plantations of cacao, coffee and the precious rubber trees (Castile elastica), the last exotic species introduced in Panama.
On the way there is no difficult terrain, it is very easy as it is flat from beginning to end, but it is good to go in good sole shoes because of the amount of round stones that can disturb your feet. Very good to visit with family and stop at some of the benches that are on the way to snack. You can also travel with bicycles, if that is your preference. The trail can be complemented by a visit to the waterfall that is almost at the end, the trail ends at an intersection that links it with the Camino de Cruces.
Once I was on the road with some friends, we saw some lianas, and tried to chill Tarzan, we were in that long enough, the liana always could with our weight.
It is said that this road and its secondary jungle, was also used by US military to train Latino military.
There is usually no one in the Anam hut that is at the beginning of the road, but if you find the entrance has a value of 1 $ for national and 3 $ for foreigners.
Remember, the trash is yours, take it!