Local Insights

Your new neighbors have fur, feathers and fins. One of the best parts of living here is that wildlife isn’t something you drive to see. It’s in your backyard, often before your first coffee. Howler monkeys Your alarm clock or as some locals say, your sign that its about to rain. Their roar carries for kilometers making them sound so much bigger than they are. They mostly keep to themselves in the treetops, and the forest corridors around our towns are part of what keeps them

Spoiler: it’s not what you’re imagining. Most visitors see this coast in the dry season: blue skies, golden hills, offshore winds and they think "rainy season" means that it rains all day, everyday for the entire time. But that couldn't be further from the truth. This is why we like to refer to it as "Green Season" instead. Here’s a brief review of what our Green Season is really like from someone who’s lived through a lifetime of them. When it rains The rainy season runs rou

A week on the ground will tell you more than a year of browsing listings. Most people who end up living here started with one trip. If you’re seriously considering a move, plan a trip with a purpose: see the place, see the land, and see what everyday life is really like. When to come Come in both seasons if you can. The dry season (roughly December–April) is beautiful and shows you what a "high season" looks like here. It will also give you an idea of what everything looks li

What happened, how our towns fared, and what it means for anyone thinking of building here. On Friday, October 9, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck the Azuero Peninsula. (The USGS measured it at 7.7.) It was centered inland, northwest of Tonosí, and it was shallow, which is why it was felt across Panama and as far away as Costa Rica and Colombia. Hundreds of aftershocks followed in the days after. First, the most important news: no deaths were reported. Twenty-seven people we

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