Titumate, Balboa and Tanela

Titumate is the first “real” coastal village when we come from Turbo to Trigana by boat, 30min away from Trigana on a small boat. The water can be crystalline as well as all blurry from the fresh water currents charged with sediments from the Rio Atrato. We don’t specially come here for the beach but because it is the starting point of the tracks leading to the Darien, to the National Park Los Katios, the therms of Balboa, the Kuna Indian village of Tanela, a few big rivers where you can go tubing (going down rivers of big air chambers). Sadly, the region is quite deforested due to farm land and production of wood for constructions…that’s why the tracks are there, for the wood and livestock.