La Isla de Contadora se encuentra en el Archipiélago de las Perlas en el Océano Pacifico, a 50 millas de la Ciudad de Panamá. Podemos encontrar restaurantes de categoría y buenos hoteles, y tiendas donde se puede adquirir equipo para buceo y esnórkel, así como también para pesca deportiva. Existen 13 espectaculares playas que rodean la isla, y también están disponibles excursiones a islas que no están muy lejos de ahí, la mayoría de ellas están deshabitadas, por lo que es relativamente fácil encontrar un lugar tranquilo para disfrutar del sol y la arena y pasar un rato agradable.
Hay pocas alternativas de alojamiento en la isla, aunque podemos encontrar hoteles como Hotel Contadora y Punta Galeón, los cuales están muy cerca del aeropuerto. El Hotel Contadora es un resort todo incluido con actividades variadas para sus huéspedes, como canchas voleibol, espectáculos nocturnos, canchas de tenis y deportes acuáticos.
El área es excelente para la práctica de buceo con tanques y esnórkeling, en especial cuando la marea esta baja. Si desea observar aves, puede ir hacia Isla Pacheca, que se encuentra cerca, mientras que en Playa Larga se pueden observar tortugas y tiburones. Algunas playas recomendadas para practicar esnórkeling son Playa Cacique, Playa Galeón y Playa Canoa. También existe una playa nudista llamada Playa Sueca.
Los arrecifes de coral también habitan cerca de la isla, y los alrededores también son apropiados para la pesca deportiva. Se ofrecen tours en lancha a los alrededores de Isla Contadora y a las varias islas cercanas.
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Panama’s coastal waters are dotted with some of the most beautiful islands in the world. These unique treasures offer all of the benefits of Caribbean islands, with better vegetation, weather, wildlife, and without hurricanes, high prices, and crime.
Best known among Panama’s offshore getaways are the Pearl Islands just forty miles out to sea in the Gulf of Panama. This chain of islands is part of the Las Perlas archipelago, the outcropped rim of a long extinct volcano.
Over the millennia, the action of waves and wind have combined to produce a rich volcanic soil that now supports a lush and diverse eco-system that is one of the most visually stunning on earth.
Real estate values abound on several of the larger Pearl Islands like Contadora and San Jose. Life on these islands features all of the comforts of home with world class developments, resorts, golf courses, restaurants, entertainment, and shopping readily available.
The Pearl Islands offer a rarified pleasure for the privileged few able to afford the ultimate in discreet getaways, your own private island.
Many of the Pearl Islands remain sparsely populated, or entirely uninhabited. For a price, you can make like Robinson Crusoe and forge your own island culture.
The list of islands currently for sale is too lengthy to mention here, but some of the more notable ones are Isla Gallina, Buena Vista, and Isla Quiros. These offerings range in size from less than one acre to more than twenty. Pricing ranges from as little as $2M to more than $20M.
Whether you are shopping for a private island, or just looking for a condo on the beach, Panama has an answer for you.
Panama’s real estate offerings are as diverse as the country itself. From the beaches of the Pearl Islands, to the mountain vistas of Boquete, to the urban sophistication of Panama City, this remarkable nation offers just what you have been looking for. Plan your visit to Panama soon, and make sure to look into Panama real estate, your affordable place in the sun.
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The Pearl Islands are actually the peaks of a long extinct volcano that have risen above the sea. The area has been geologically stable for millennia leading to the development of one of the lushest eco-systems anywhere on our planet.
The Islands feature a slow moving pace of life set against a backdrop of indescribable natural beauty. Dense rainforest like vegetation shrouds gently rolling hills.
The beaches of most islands in the Pearl chain are composed of sugar sand, the fine white granules sought by avid sun worshipers. What beach would be complete without a sparkling azure blue ocean lapping at its feet? You will find this perfect combination throughout the Pearls.
Real Estate is one of the main industries driving commerce on the islands. Eco-conscious developers have constructed numerous world class resort properties, and still more projects are on the drawing boards.
For those with more expensive tastes, private island are available for purchase. It might surprise you to find that you can own an entire island for less than you paid for your deluxe Miami condo!
On your next visit to Panama, catch one of many daily flights to the Pearl Islands. Spend a day wandering the streets of the quaint villages and towns you will find on the larger islands. Hop aboard one of the many ferries that shuttle tourists and residents from island to island. Along the way, look for a local real estate professional. They are always anxious to share the story of their island home. They are also your best guide to bargains on your piece of paradise.
The Spanish came to these islands in search of Pearls, but stayed for the wonders and breathtaking natural beauty of this jewel in the crown of the Gem of Central America, Panama.
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There are a couple of tourist transportation alternatives going to Isla Contadora, the faster, but slightly higher cost of the morning flight out and evening flight back is only the first choice of many. Air Panama and Aeroperlas have several fifteen minute (or so) flights each day, from Panama City’s Albrook area airport for about $60 roundtrip. With the longer day that would give you at the beach, you could plan a day trip, enjoy the beaches, scuba a couple of hours, and still be back for Happy Hour in Panama City. How relaxing would that be?
There is also regularly scheduled hydrofoil ferry service from the docks in Balboa to Contadora Island. That trip requires 2-3 hours or so each way, but is only about $4.00 more economical than the air flights. You can chose to go by ferry out in the morning, spend the day at Contadora Island’s Beaches, snorkel awhile, and explore the azure blue of the undersea world and then take the evening ferry back to the mainland.
Whichever means of transportation you choose, don’t miss seeing the astonishing variety of sea life surrounding this tropical paradise island. But do remember, that one person’s dream can be another person’s nightmare; so be sure to bring the entertainment everyone in your party will want, whether it’s books, music, movies or games…because you won’t be able to buy it on Contadora Island. In fact, you won’t be able to get cash there either, since there isn’t an ATM or bank, so carry what you’ll need.
Perhaps you and your guests will look forward to having a longer time to relax on the white beach sands, in the Contadora sunshine and feel the warm, beach breezes; even to investigate the lodging alternatives so you can plan to spend the night, or perhaps the month exploring the in the coral fields surrounding this 1.2 sq. km. Pacific Isle.
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Searches for the mostly unrecorded truths about the prehistoric residents of Archipelagos de las Perlas, help to reconstruct the social, political, ideological and natural world of the native peoples; but will we ever truly grasp the contextual nature the ethno-historical sources offer about pearls in the pre-colonial eras? Exploring the context of the sociopolitical and supernatural worlds of the southern Central American Natives, before they ever met a European; how the pearls they collected were used in daily activities and how they functioned as symbols of identity, wisdom, and knowledge are part of understandings gleaned from those truths.
Based on archeological evidence, it is now possible to divide objects forming part of the daily lives of South Central American Natives into three categories: sacred object, “monetary” objects and objects of value. The inhabitants of the isthmus had many means of distinguishing themselves from one another, among which ornaments, clothing, language and bodily ornamentation all played complementary roles. Pearls were a large part of the ornamentation used in all three categories.
In those pre-historic times, jewelry given by Native peoples was believed to have magical-religious powers. Pearls were guarded by the basket in the chiefs’ houses…they were even recorded being taken from the Pearl Islands and transported to the Caribbean where the Chief of Comogre received them. Moreover, on some occasions natives are recorded as having given Spaniards pearls in designs together with gold, as a sign of their hopes and plans for peace.
Yet, even allegedly pearl-free, the Archipelagos of La Perlas continues to enchant each of us to visit again, with amazing sea life in azure seas, and bright skies decorated with beams of sunlight and rays of moonlight. We are privileged to sit on the sea’s shore just as did the pre-historic men, women and children…and admire them.
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The history of the pearls from the Archipelago de Las Perlas has been of interest to archaeologists, and other historians as well as the general public for a long time. Some of the pearls gathered in these islands are not in national and foreign museums; instead they are in private collections and in the hands of individuals…and have been discovered more as a result of the manner of the Spanish plundering and their adversities at sea, rather than of archaeological investigation.
In Pre-Columbian times, Las Perlas Islands were ruled by an Indian king whose main focus was pearl-diving. Pearls were then used as ornaments and to trade with. First settled by the Spanish in the 16th century, pearls were found in the waters around Contadora, including the astonishing 31 carat, over 400 year old Pelegrina pearl owned now by Elizabeth Taylor. This is pearl jewelry with a renowned history, since its owners have included a Queen of Spain, a French Emperor and an English Queen.
Contadora Island was the destination of the Spanish fleet for all the pearls collected to be counted, in route to the Spanish Court. The Pearl Islands stimulated the greed of many Spanish conquistadors. Vasco Nuñez de Balboa, who discovered and gave name to the Pacific Ocean from a point less than 90 kilometers from San Jose Island, was attracted by its wealth in gold and pearls. Later on, the Archipelagos de las Perlas sheltered infamous pirates of many different nationalities, who for several centuries looted the wealthy Spanish settlements and fleet.
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