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Extract from the Cerro Punta Travel Guides:
Set almost 2000m above sea level in a bowl-shaped valley surrounded by densely forested mountains,
CERRO PUNTA
is the highest village in Panam, and often swathed in cloud. In the eighty or so years since it was settled, agriculture has expanded so rapidly that the town now produces some 80 percent of all the vegetables consumed in Panam. This agricultural boom has been at the expense of the surrounding forests, however, and the local population is just beginning to face up to the consequences of deforestation, soil erosion and excessive pesticide use.
Despite these problems, the village and surrounding fields are st...
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