Isla Palenque Book
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A Publication of the Palenque Press
Isle-brary of Congress Number 877-212-6253
2010, Isla Palenque, Chiriqui, Panama
Table of ContentsThis book invites you to take an explorers journey: one that leads to our incomparable island, allows you
to experience its enchantment, and helps you envision its future. This is your guide, your travel journal to a
captivating place that will continually call to you afterward. Once youve experienced Isla Palenque, it is
forever a part of you.
The Journey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Follow in our footsteps as we travel to and through Panama toward Isla Palenque.
The Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Revel in a naturalists exploration of the wilds of Isla Palenque.
The Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32See inside the mind of the designer and the guiding principles behind the resort.
Departure & Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46We depart the island, already planning our return.
An Invitation to Explore
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Not all that wander are lost. J.R.R. Tolkien
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Washington D. C.
Montreal
Toronto
Miami
Orlando
Atlanta
New York
Newark
Dallas
Houston
Los Angeles
Bogota
Lima
Mexico City
Aruba
Caracas
Guatamala City
Managua
San Jose
P A C I F I CO C E A N
The Journey Begins
Tokyo
Hong Kong
Bangkok
Singapore
Jakarta
Buenos Aires
Santiago
Melbou
rne
Mumbai PANAMA
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Valencia
Antwerp
HamburgManchesterAmsterdam
Timbuktu
Rio De Janeiro
Madrid
A T L A N T I CO C E A N
Manc
heste
r
Hamb
urg
Antwe
rp
Valencia
Dubai
Timbuktu
Cape Town
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If you had to choose one word to describe Panama,
it would be diversity. Its part of the fascinating and
contradictory character of this country that each time
you turn around, you see something new.
Panama began as a land of diverse peoples, over a
million of which made up the several dozen tribes that
lived here before Spanish colonization. Today, eight
indigenous tribes still survive in Panama, many of them
living much as they did thousands of years ago.
Centuries of colonization by the Spanish, and even
a brief attempt by the Scottish, further diversi ed
Panamas culture. The long French and U.S. presence
during the building of the Canal added their in uences,
as well as those of the Chinese and Afro-Caribbeans
who came to bend their backs to the punishing work.
Yes, dozens of indigenous tribes and hundreds of years
of colonialism have made the population and culture
richly diverse, but that just scratches the surface.
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2500 BC-AD 1538 Pre-Columbian Period
1538-1821 Spanish Colonial Period
16712500 BC 1501 1502 16731513 1519
Panama Diversity
BALBOA
EMBERA WOMEN DANCING
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Panama boasts 5,000 animal species; including 950
species of birds and hundreds of species of butter ies.
In the jungles live monkeys, sloths, armadillos, ocelots,
fox and tapir. The ocean is home to whales, dolphins,
manatees, sea turtles and of course, hundreds of
species of sh. In fact, Panama loosely translated means
land of many sh.
Panamas diverse attributes have been appreciated by
everyone from Christopher Columbus to Balboa, from
the infamous pirate Henry Morgan to Sir Francis Drake,
from Abraham Lincoln to Teddy Roosevelt
a veritable whos who of Western Civilization. Today,
after centuries of colonization and the in uence of
nations big and small, the Republic of Panama exists
free, independent and democratic the steward of all
the treasures it has to offer the world.
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1821-1903 Columbian Period
1815 18521821 1855 1862
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE IN HISTORIC CASCO VIEJO
TRADITIONAL PANAMANIAN POLLERA
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1878-1902 French Canal Period
1903-2000U.S. Canal Period
2000-PresentPanamanian Expansion
1878 1882 1889 1902 1903 1904 1915 1939 1968 1977 1989 2000
U. S. S. L
ouisiana,
At Sea, No
vember 20
, 1906
Dear Kerm
it,
Our visit
to Panama
was most
successfu
l as well
as
most inter
esting. Wh
en on Wedn
esday we
approache
d
the coast,
and the
jungle-co
vered moun
tains loo
ked
clearer an
d clearer
until we
could see
the surf
beating on
the shore
s, while t
here was
hardly
a sign of
human ha
bitation,
I kept thi
nking of
the four c
enturies
of wild an
d bloody r
omance
which ha
d made up
the histo
ry of the
Isthmus.
. .I
could see
Balboa cr
ossing at
Darien, a
nd the wa
rs
between t
he Spania
rds and t
he Indian
s, and the
settlemen
t and the
building
up of the
quaint
walled Sp
anish tow
ns; and t
he trade,
across the
seas by ga
lleon, and
over land
by pack-t
rain and
river cano
e, in gold
and silv
er, in pre
cious ston
es;
and then
the adve
nt of the
buccaneer
s, and of
the Engli
sh seamen
, of Drak
e and Frob
isher and
Morgan.
Theodore R
oosevelt
At once both colonial and contemporary in mood and setting, this burgeoning city of around 750,000 people is the most sophisticated metropolis between Miami and Maracaibo. - National Geographic
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