Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Panama


At low elevations in Panama the temperature in the day time is usually eighty to ninety degrees Fahrenheit. At night it is usually about 70 degrees Fahrenheit. At higher elevations, such as on the mountains the temperature is lower, it will usually be from fifty to seventy degrees Fahrenheit on the mountains. The temperature in Panama does not change much between seasons. Panama has high humidity averaging 80%. The average rainfall in Panama City is seventy inches per year and one hundred and twenty inches in Colon. The season with the most rain is October through November.
Panama has diverse physical geography with mountains and plains. It is located on the Isthmus of Panama. It is between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and has a waterway called the Panama Canal, used by ships to get from the Atlantic to the Pacific and vice versa without going around Cape Horn.