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THE RIVERS
Rivers are a main attraction of the region. They have an enormous volume due
to intense rains that characterize the humid tropical climate, where only
are two seasons, rainy and dry, being this one last only three or
four months in the year.
All of them are born in the heights of the Central Mountain range and in the first part of its route, the mountainous one, due to the proximity with the coast, lowers pronounced pending with speed and violence, dragging great amount of rocks and stones that are giving form to him and depositing in its channel, forming with them meanders and altering shores constantly. In the plain its current becomes slower and its channel takes winding forms. When arriving at the sea they form sand bars and small coastal lagoons. Of little depth is only navigable for small boats and rafts in the last sections of its route. THE CHANGUINOLA RIVER
Towards the Caribbean we find 18 river basins, between them excel by
his surface of 3.202 square kilometers the one of the Changuinola river
(of high hydroelectric potential). This river, of 110 kilometers in
length, is his main component.
Flowing through one of the most beautiful, remote and biologically diverse areas in Central America, the Changuinola is at the heart of the heavily forested and sparsely populated province of Bocas del Toro. Don't miss to experience the extraordinary adventure to navegate by the Changuinola River on small boats with outboard engines, where in the route it is possible to appreciate a conserved good forest, brightened up by exotic animal sounds, worthy to photograph like a unforgettable memory of the tropical rain forest of Panama. 
 THE TERIBE RIVER
The Teribe river, of 110 kilometers in length, is component of the river basin
of the Changuinola river, with a surface of 3.202 square kilometers.
Raising by the Changuinola river we found a joint where the united currents of the Teribe and the Changuena rivers form the Changuinola. The boat enters in the water of the Teribe without greater transition because he is almost so great as the main river. The place, very interesting, is called Two Mouths and close is located the térraba (teribe) village of Quequexque, mentioned in documents of the time of the Spanish discovery. 
To the left it is left Junco, and opposite it is possible to observe
the small village of Segla that extends over an end of sands and rocks.
Some small houses of palaphitic style is superposed from time to time to
the vegetal landscape of the borders that are raised in a series of low
hills that keep the river.
It is a river full of curves and fast currents (torrents) where, according to the natives, there is a devil that always waits. The Teribe river changes its course every year. The swellings, cause bursts and the river marches on the other hand, so there is to guess how it is going to be the bed of the river. At the time of the year in which there are strong rains that have let grow the Teribe, there are no slips with the bottom, knowing well its alternatives. But at the dry seaspm, although less dangerous for being smaller the current, the trip is more delayed because there are passages in which it is needed to walk the river carrying the canoe. 
The first small village that we found is Charagre, in the region of
the same name. In the borders of the river it is possible to observe
women washing his clothes on the river. In the horizon, between the
silhouettes of trees, it is possible to see rise the Mountainous area
of Bonyic.
You will arrive to a place where the river is narrowed, to the famous "Rock of Half Moon". We stop the canoe ahead to be able to take pictures. Like a two meters of height on the surface of the river, it is possible to appreciate a deep furrow on the rock, like a part of perfect circle with the ends directed upwards giving the impression of a moon in first quarter. Just a short time later it is arrived at the Sonoyic creek, at our left, that is in the right margin the river. Soon one goes through Chubco, also to our left, and by Sonoyc, to our right, and its beautiful cascade. One more torrent and is arrived at Doreiyic. Here the river makes a very closed curve, which there are to follow until the destination, Seiyic THE SAN SAN RIVER
The San San river, of 37,3 kilometers in length, is the main component
of the river basin that forms the rivers that are between the Changuinola
and the Sixaola, with a surface of 222,5 square kilometers.
It is a river of little depth that, when meeting with the sea, forms one sand bar and an inner coastal lagoon. In his waters it is possible to find one of the aquatic mammals that are more seriously threatened of extinction: the manatí. THE SIXAOLA RIVER
The Sixaola river, of 146 kilometers in length, is the main component
of the river basin of the same name, with a surface of 509,4 square
kilometers.
It serves as natural limit between Panama and Costa Rica, receiving waters of affluents rivers in both countries. In Costa Rica they are the rivers Banana, Telire, Coen, Lari and Urión, while in Panama they are the rivers Yorkin, Scui, Katsi and Uren. The river is used like means of transport specially for different indigenous ethnic groups of the region: teribes, ngobes and bribris, that they mobilize with boats and rafts. Historically, on 1605, the Spanish conqueror Diego de Sojo founded in the costa rican shores of this river, the town of Santiago de Talamanca, with the intention of extending the colonization to the promissory valley of the Duy and to the river basin of the Río La Estrella, located something more to the south. The town of Santiago had a quite prosperous life, but it finished being burned by the natives in 1610, as reaction because of the excesses and threatens of the conquerors to them. |