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Panama Canal Rainforest boat adventure

Lake Gatun, Panama Canal

Discover the wildlife-rich rainforest of the Panama Canal by boat.

The Panama Canal is much more than a waterway for gigantic cargo ships – it’s a thriving haven for wildlife.

Board a small expedition boat and explore Lake Gatún, created in 1914 as part of the canal and once the largest man-made lake in the world. Today, former hilltops rise as rainforest-covered islands teeming with wildlife and birdlife.

Spot capuchin, howler and spider monkeys, Geoffrey’s tamarins, three-toed sloths, green iguanas, crocodiles, and many species of bird, as a container ship glides past in the distance.

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