Birdwatchers, campers and eco-adventurers are welcome to visit Altos de Campana National Park - 4.925 hectares of green forests and rolling hills located in the western area of the province of Panama.

Altos de Campana is Panama's first national park. It was created in 1966 to protect the Panama Canal basin. The area is part of the eastern slope of the El Valle de Anton volcano, and its past volcanic activity is clearly reflected in its rugged terrain, which features spectacular cliffs, lava fields and tors. From some of its hills, visitors can enjoy commanding vistas of the Canal basin as well as Chame Point and bay.

The park harbors four types of forest communities: humid tropical forest, very humid premontane forest, very humid tropical forest and premontane rainforest. The peak of Cerro Campana is considered a biogeographical island for endemic species. Mosses, orchids, bromeliads and epiphytes grow, there.

There are 39 mammal species, one of the most numerous being the black-eared opossum (Didelphis marsupialis). Also present are the endemic mouse species Liomys adspersus coati (Nasua narica), crab-eating raccoon (Procion cancrivorus), two-toed sloth (Choloepus hoffmani) and three-toed sloth (Bradypus variegates), Geoffroy's tamarin (Saguinus geoffroyi). Two-hundred and sixty-seven bird species have been spotted at the park, of which 48 are migratory.