City overview
Panama packs two oceans, a rainforest and one of the world's great engineering sites into a country you can cross in a day, and it does it with the largest and best-served kosher infrastructure in Central America. Panama City's skyline sits beside a UNESCO-listed colonial quarter and the locks of the Panama Canal, while the highlands of Boquete and the Caribbean islands of Bocas del Toro are a short flight away. The Jewish community numbers roughly fifteen thousand, mostly Sephardi families of Syrian and Lebanese descent, concentrated in Punta Paitilla, Punta Pacífica and Bella Vista. Kosher Panamá, the certification body of the Shevet Ahim congregation, supervises well over ninety establishments countrywide, and an eruv covers the main Jewish neighbourhoods.
Amador Causeway
Panama City
Cycle or stroll a six-kilometre spit into the Pacific with the whole city skyline behind you.
Hours
Open daily 24 hours
Tips
Built from Panama Canal excavation spoil and linking four islands. Bicycle rental is available along the road.
Neighborhood
Amador
Activity providers
Kosher map of Panama City
Pick a place on the map or search an address or hotel to see what is kosher around it.