Photographic Essay
of the
Bahia de Panama Site Panama

The photographic essay focuses on Bahia de Panama in Panama (Figure 3.1). Photographs of selected wetland and floodplain locations are digital camera images taken by the WETMAAP Development Team, February 2008 (Figure 3.2).

The photographic essay is for use with a series of aerial photographs, topographic maps, wetland and upland habitat maps, and selected materials that assist in the identification of changes of wetland and floodplain habitats.

The photographic essay identifies habitat changes within the floodplain of the Bahia de Panama. The essay shows representative examples of salt open water and channels, forested wetland, wetland scrub-shrub, upland agricultural, upland range, and urban.

Figure 3.1: Proximal Location
The Bahia de Panama study site Pedragal Quadrangle

Figure 3.2: Bahia de Panama Photo Essay
Ground Photograph Locations With Line- of- Sight

Plate numbers correspond with circled numbers on the reduced section (Panama site) of the Pedragal quadrangle. Arrows indicate directions of line-of-sight.