It covers about 250 hectares or 655 acres and is known as the only tropical forest park and wildlife refuge in Latin America situated within a metropolitan capital.

We started off our visit at the Metropolitan Natural Park by checking out the visitor center and the information signs. The park has three main hiking trails or "senderos" named the Mono Titi Trail, the Momotides Trails, the Cieneguita Trail and the Los Caobos Trail.

We chose to take the most popular trail, Sendero Cienequita, to go see the Panama City Lookout.

Some of the creatures that can be seen in Parque Natural Metropolitano include three toed sloths, coati, tamarin monkeys, deer, butterflies and toucans.