On the Río Chagres motorized wooden boats are the only means of transport. Make this trip to Panama's Emberá people, and you witness not just some folkloristic performance, but the very culture by ...

ELLA PURU — Once a week, teacher Graciela Bouche takes a canoe from her small town in the Panama rainforest to an indigenous village some 2km away where spotty internet cannot replace shuttered ...

Time stands still in this village. Or does it? Parara Puru might be sheltered by the Panamanian rain forest, accessible only by dugout canoe from the Río Chagres, but the women who greet us as we ...

Chief Zarco’s daughter Natalia Sarco works as an ecologist and bird-watching guide in Panama City’s Metropolitan National Park. The former Canal Zone’s 573-acre park was a site of the Albrook survival ...