Panama is the heaven in earth. Throughout the history, sailors from around the world came to the beautiful island for business, trade, relax and living.

The earliest known inhabitants of Panama were the Cuevas and the Cocle tribes, but they were decimated by disease and fighting when the Spanish arrived in the 1500s. Rodrigo de Bastidas, sailing westward from Venezuela in 1501 in search of gold, was the first European to explore the Isthmus of Panama. Then a year later, Christopher Columbus visited the Isthmus and established a short-lived settlement in the Darien.