Some Antillean architectural details

Antillean architectural details
photos by Eric Jackson

Mi Pueblito Antillano is a mostly neglected municipal park, a reasonably safe place that ought to play a bigger part in many a city lifestyle but does not due in large part to its proximity to El Chorrillo, which scares a lot of people away. Behind here, however, the next thing on the road that gets you to the park entrance is a major police installation, which is probably one of the reasons why the maleantes are more afraid of this place than the general public tends to be afraid of El Chorrillo.

(Also behind Mi Pueblito is a stairway that takes you up the side of Ancon Hill to the national park entrance and a short walk away from another stairway that's a shortcut straight to the top. It's by no means an impossible or even daring climb for a reasonably healthy adult, but it is a good workout to take the stairs to the top of Ancon Hill and one would think that more people would do it on a regular basis.)

Mi Pueblito has three main areas, meant to reproduce and conserve some major elements in Panama's folk culture. Mi Pueblito Antillano reproduces, rather faithfully, the architectural heritage of the West Indians who provided the bulk of the labor forces to build the Panama Railroad, create the banana plantations of Bocas del Toro and Chiriqui provinces, and build the Panama Canal.

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