Though Panama is roughly the same size as South Carolina, it doesn't resemble it in any other way. At its narrowest point, about 50 miles of rugged mountains separate the Caribbean Sea from the Pacific and I'm told that if you stand atop the correct peak on a clear day, you can see both oceans. I'm just trying to figure out why I want to climb a mountain to do that.
Ehem, getting back to the map: Volcan is on the far left (west). This is where we've rented a house. The lot we purchased is about 5 kilometers farther west - it's on the slopes of the Tisingal volcano, which last erupted 300 years before Christ. The core is cold, so we think we're pretty safe. Tisingal spawned the lovely creek,
appropriately named Rio de Tisingal, that borders our property.AND, 2,300 years ago, when it erupted, it blessed our property with a million rocks,.
