Playa Santa Clara

Playa Santa Clara, one of the Central Pacific coast's nicest beaches, with plenty of pale sand and good water for swimming, lies just east of Farallón (Playa Blanca). Santa Clara's hotels have always been comparatively small and catered mostly to Panamanians, but a new all-inclusive Breezes resort promises to change the face of this quiet community. On the western end of the beach is the tiny fishing village of Santa Clara, where dozens of small boats are anchored offshore, and visible from the beach is Isla Farallón, a giant, pale rock that has decent snorkeling around it.