Coiba, once Panama's most feared penal colony where political prisoners were sent under Torrijos and Noriega, was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005 largely because decades of enforced isolation inadvertently preserved one of the Eastern Pacific's most biodiverse marine ecosystems. The prison closed the same year.
Coiba, once Panama's most feared penal colony where political prisoners were sent under Torrijos and Noriega, was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005 largely because decades of enforced isolation inadvertently preserved one of the Eastern Pacific's most biodiverse marine ecosystems. The prison closed the same year.