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LA AMISTAD (FRIENDSHIP) INTERNATIONAL PARK
Created in 1988 by an initiative of the governments of Panama and Costa
Rich, the La Amistad International Park, known popularly as PILA,
extends on the impressive massifs of the Central Mountain range, between
the provinces of Chiriquí and Bocas of the Toro. Its
biological importance has motivated that in 1990 UNESCO it declared
Site of the Natural Worldwide Patrimony.
Of 207.000 hectares of extension its biodiversity is incredible: 7 of
the 12 zones of life that are located in Panama are in this protected
area, from the very humid premountainous forests in plains,
until the mountainous pluvial forests in the heights. It have registered
more than 100 species of mammals, among them the five species of felines
that live in the country, 91 species of amphibians as well as more than
400 species of birds.
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