Laguna de San Carlos (San Carlos Lake) ~ Sightseeing around Panama!!

If you love nature, you're really going to enjoy this place. In the foothills of Picacho Hills (1.100m or 3608ft) is located Laguna de San Carlos, with an altitude of almost 800m above sea level and surrounded by green mountains partially covered by fog this place is wonderful. So perfect to pitch a tent, rest, picnic, paddle, fish, oh yes you can catch a very modest diversity of fishes including river shrimps. If you like walking you can walk down the paths around the lake or even visit the summit of the mountains and enjoy the view.

The climate here is much cooler than the average temperature of Panama city. Temperatures can range from 27°C (80°F) to 18°C (64 °F), during summer is very windy and the lake is almost 2 meters below its normal level. Through winter the lake can reach up to 10 meters depth.

Laguna de San Carlos is approximately 100 kms from Panama City. To get there you need to drive all the way like if you’re going to Coronado beach, and 50 mts before Coronado’s main entrance, on the right hand you will see a green road sign that reads Las Lajas, then you take this way and drive up all the way (no deviation) for 20 kms, almost 25 minutes, and you will see the paved road ends, here you make a turn to the right and drive on a gravel road for around 3 minutes until you finally get to the lake.

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