Gulf of PanamaPanama
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Pearl Islands
Archipiélago de las Perlas
The Pearl Islands (Spanish: Archipiélago de las Perlas or Islas de las Perlas) is a group of 200 or more islands and islets (many tiny and uninhabited) lying about 30 miles (48 km) off the Pacific coast of Panama in the Gulf of Panama.
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The Pearl Islands (Spanish: Archipiélago de las Perlas or Islas de las Perlas) is a group of 200 or more islands and islets (many tiny and uninhabited) lying about 30 miles (48 km) off the Pacific coast of Panama in the Gulf of Panama.
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Census, cataloged
- Major islands2
- Minor islands24
- Islets126
- Rocks & skerries67
Major islands
Isla del Rey
- Area
- 230 km²
- High point
- 228 m
Isla del Rey is the largest island in the Pearl Islands in the Gulf of Panama. It spans 234 square kilometres (90 sq mi), and hosts a population of 1,676 (census 2000). Its name is probably more a reference to Christ the King than to a secular king.
Isla San José
- Area
- 43.9 km²
- High point
- 148 m
Isla San José is the second-largest island in the Pearl Islands, off the Pacific coast of Panama. The privately owned island has an area of 44 square kilometres (17 mi2). At the 2000 census, it had a population of 10 people.
Minor islands
Isla Viveros
- Area
- 6.3 km²
- High point
- 57 m
Cañas Island
- Area
- 5.2 km²
- High point
- 126 m
Isla Saboga
- Area
- 3 km²
- High point
- 77 m
Isla Casaya
- Area
- 2.4 km²
- High point
- 45 m
Isla Bayoneta
- Area
- 2.3 km²
- High point
- 57 m
Isla Chapera
- Area
- 1.9 km²
- High point
- 62 m
Isla San Telmo
- Area
- 1.6 km²
- High point
- 83 m
Isla Contadora
- Area
- 1.3 km²
- High point
- 49 m
Isla Gibraleón
- Area
- 1 km²
- High point
- 42 m
Isla Mina
- Area
- 1 km²
- High point
- 36 m
Isla Mogo Mogo
- Area
- 0.98 km²
- High point
- 48 m
Isla de Puerco
- Area
- 0.65 km²
- High point
- 101 m
Unnamed island
- Area
- 0.43 km²
- High point
- 60 m
Isla Casayeta
- Area
- 0.4 km²
- High point
- 30 m
Unnamed island
- Area
- 0.29 km²
- High point
- 54 m
Unnamed island
- Area
- 0.24 km²
- High point
- 39 m
Unnamed island
- Area
- 0.24 km²
- High point
- 32 m
Isla Galera
- Area
- 0.23 km²
- High point
- 42 m
Isla Bolaño
- Area
- 0.21 km²
- High point
- 24 m
Isla Chitre
- Area
- 0.17 km²
- High point
- 72 m
Isla Ampón
- Area
- 0.15 km²
- High point
- 16 m
Isla del Espiritu Santo
- Area
- 0.14 km²
- High point
- 44 m
Unnamed island
- Area
- 0.14 km²
- High point
- 28 m
Isletilla de Ullilo
- Area
- 0.11 km²
- High point
- 28 m
Rocks & skerries
On the chart above, at its closest zooms.
Listing 26 of 219; the rest are on the chart.
Figures
Comparative heights
- Isla del Rey: 228 m
- Isla San José: 148 m
- Cañas: 126 m
- Isla de Puerco: 101 m
- Isla San Telmo: 83 m
- Isla Saboga: 77 m
- Isla Chitre: 72 m
- Isla Chapera: 62 m
- Isla Viveros: 57 m
- Isla Bayoneta: 57 m
- Isla Contadora: 49 m
- Isla Mogo Mogo: 48 m
- Isla Casaya: 45 m
- Isla del Espiritu Santo: 44 m
To the same scale
Islands by area
| Isla del Rey | 230 km² |
| Isla San José | 43.9 km² |
| Isla Viveros | 6.3 km² |
| Cañas Island | 5.2 km² |
| Isla Saboga | 3 km² |
| Isla Casaya | 2.4 km² |
| Isla Bayoneta | 2.3 km² |
| Isla Chapera | 1.9 km² |
| Isla San Telmo | 1.6 km² |
| Isla Contadora | 1.3 km² |
| Isla Gibraleón | 1 km² |
| Isla Mina | 1 km² |
| Isla Mogo Mogo | 0.98 km² |
| Isla de Puerco | 0.65 km² |
| Unnamed island | 0.43 km² |
| Isla Casayeta | 0.4 km² |
| Unnamed island | 0.29 km² |
| Unnamed island | 0.24 km² |
| Unnamed island | 0.24 km² |
| Isla Galera | 0.23 km² |
| Isla Bolaño | 0.21 km² |
| Isla Chitre | 0.17 km² |
| Isla Ampón | 0.15 km² |
| Isla del Espiritu Santo | 0.14 km² |
| Unnamed island | 0.14 km² |
| Isletilla de Ullilo | 0.11 km² |
Photographs
AA flight from Quito, Ecuador to Miami, Florida...Ensenada Playa Grande in the Golfo de Panama just S of Panama City...
Playa Blanca, Saboga, Panama
Ken Erickson, 2003, San Miguel, Pearl Islands, Panama, view from the water
Dcim\100gopro\G0360569.
Ilhas vistas de um avião indo em direção ao Aeroporto Internacional de Tocumen, na Cidade do Panamá.
Sandstrand
Aeroperlas departing Contadora, Panamá. (OTD), back in 2001. Some old school spotting. Kodak Gold 100. Camera Canon BF Twin.
How Pedro Gonzalez looks from the road
RU 007187, Box 8, Folder 18; "The photograph documents Isaac Ginsburg's field work in locations in Panama, particularly connected with the fishing industry."
Smithsonian Institution from United States / No restrictions
Sources
Facts
Photographs
- Contadora Perleninseln (150229857). Dronepicr / CC BY 3.0
- AA flight from Quito, Ecuador to Miami, Florida...Ensenada Playa Grande in the Golfo de Panama just S of Panama City... (26360715834). Murray Foubister / CC BY-SA 2.0
- Playa Blanca, Saboga, Panama (Unsplash). Rowan Heuvel insolitus / CC0
- San Miguel (1). Kenvanportbc at English Wikipedia / Public domain
- Strand in Contadora (27117318015). dronepicr / CC BY 2.0
- Contadora (150229863). Dronepicr / CC BY 3.0
- Ilhaspanama. Andrevruas / CC BY-SA 3.0
- Sandstrand (26668592721). dronepicr / CC BY 2.0
- Dhc-6-200 (9633707538). Bernal Saborio from Costa Rica / CC BY-SA 2.0
- Pedro Gonzalez. Odalysvivas / CC BY-SA 3.0
- "Florence R." at floating deck, on shore of (?) Island, Pearl Islands, Panama, 2 March 1935 (22913640121). Smithsonian Institution from United States / No restrictions
- Excursions et Explorations - Colombie, Venezuela, Antilles, Etats-Unis, Canada, Tahiti - btv1b8447757j (055 of 125). Cannelle (18..-1923 ; explorateur). Photographe présumé Guberman, Theodore (1841?-1926). Photographe De Meuse, Robert (1 / Public domain