Living in Panama

Panama City is one of the world’s least expensive first-world cities. It is also among the most prosperous cities in Latin America. The city’s array of tall skyscrapers are reminiscent of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world.

Panama is considered the financial capital of Latin America. 130 banks benefit from the country's favorable bank regulations and confidentiality, free currency convertibility, use of the U.S. dollar as legal tender, favorable fiscal legislation, good political and social environment and the high level of its technological infrastructure.

How is it possible that one small country offers so many world-class destinations? Panama has over a thousand islands in both the Caribbean and Pacific Oceans, cool highlands covered with forests, the Panama Canal an engineered wonder, award winning coffee farms, the most accessible pristine jungle and rainforest anywhere, colonial sites that never disappoint the history lovers and a capital city with an easy cosmopolitan living and a non-stop night life.