Cinta Costera

The Cinta Costera neighborhood is an urban area of Panama located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean. It covers about 26 hectares. The neighborhood is located on land reclaimed from the ocean. It has a modern development.

Balboa Avenue runs along the area, as well as the new Cinta Coster Highway with modern interchanges. The Cinta Costera neighborhood includes the Vasco Núñez de Bonaire Park. Vasco Núñez de Balboa and other seaside parks and recreation areas with alleys, fountains, ponds, gazebos, and tennis courts. Along the coast of the Gulf of Panama there is a 3.5 kilometers long Cinta Costera bike path. In the area is the tallest building in Panama – Star Bay Tower 267 meters tall.

Avenida Balboa is the most modern and wide avenue of Panama City, as well as the most expensive highway in the world. The avenue runs along the Pacific Ocean, close to the financial center of the city. At the end of 2009, the avenue was completely renovated and widened, and Cinta Costera, Panama City’s waterfront, was opened. Cinta Costera has sports fields, parks, gazebos, fountains, green areas with trees and tropical plants, a bike path, pedestrian paths, including those adapted for the disabled, and a monument to Vasco Nuñez de Balboa, who discovered the Pacific Ocean.