Darién National Park
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How it came to be
Darien National Park lies in Darien Province in south-eastern Panama, on the land bridge between Central and South America. It takes in a stretch of the Pacific coast and nearly all of the border with Colombia, where it adjoins Colombia's Los Katios National Park. Its highest point is Cerro Tacarcuna, at 1,875 m.
Its habitats run from sandy beaches and rocky shores through mangroves, wetlands and palm forest to the largest lowland rainforest on the Pacific side of Central America. Surveys have recorded 169 mammal species, about 533 birds, 99 reptiles and 78 amphibians. Embera, Wounaan and Kuna indigenous peoples and Afro-descendant communities live inside the park.
The Alto Darien Protection Forest was declared in 1972, and a presidential decree made the area a national park in 1980. It was inscribed as a World Heritage site in 1981 and became a biosphere reserve in 1983. The park covers the Darien Gap, the only break in the Pan-American Highway, and completing the road is listed among the threats to it.
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