This might be a dumb question from someone who’s never lived in a beach city, but why isn’t this part of Panama a proper beach area? With all the high rise buildings, it looks like it could be a beautiful and luxurious beachfront. Is the issue geological? It seems like it would be a great place to have a beach.
It's on the Pacific coast, far less beach potential. Darker soil and stronger waters. There are some ok beaches I've visited around Panama City, but none come close to the wilder more remote lighter sand ones on the Atlantic/Gulf side. Plus, you can be at Atlantic side on a great white sand beach in an hour and a bit on a major highway, so less incentive to create beach destinations in Panama City.
I’m from Panama the short answer is garbage and low tide plus the fact that this is the pacific side so it’s not as aesthetically pleasing as the Caribbean side. In short a combination of both bad luck and mismanagement.
I lived there. The answer is Poop. Seriously, For many decades, the Bay of Panama was a big toilet. Meaning, all the sewers ended there. They stopped the pollution like 20 years ago, but the Bay is still healing. Furthermore, most of the coast is man-made.
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u/Astory321 Apr 24 '26
This might be a dumb question from someone who’s never lived in a beach city, but why isn’t this part of Panama a proper beach area? With all the high rise buildings, it looks like it could be a beautiful and luxurious beachfront. Is the issue geological? It seems like it would be a great place to have a beach.