Costa Rica Tour and Panama Cruise with CruiseWest
Pacheca Bird Island of Panama * Photos and text by Jack Yeazel
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GENERAL:
Pacheca is the northern-most island in the Archipelago of the Pearls, once a pearl-diving center consists of 60 tropical islands spread between 35 and 70 miles southeast of Panama on the Pacific Ocean side of the Central America Isthmus.  Pacheca is only 35 miles from the city of Panama.

On this location map, the bird island was the last stop before traveling northward through the Panama Canal

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The ship manuevers amoung the many Pearl Islands.

Click on the following thumbnails for larger views
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