The Costa del Este project was presented to the public in 1995, and since then it has become one of the largest real estate developments in Panama City.
[1] One of its sections, where the Industrial Park is now located, was known as the "Vertedero de Panamá Viejo" because it is a piece of land created by an artificial deposit of material that was extracted to build the Panama Canal for years.
To enable the land of mangroves, millions of tons of earth and rock were poured, mostly from a hill near the Villa Guadalupe area, which was removed completely.
It has sidewalks, parks, recreational areas, a huge central square, resting places, and a boardwalk of almost 4 kilometres long, like the Avenida Balboa.
The Parish San Lucas Evangelista, a Catholic church and the Congregation Kol Shearith Israel, a Jewish synagogue Costa del Este is divided into 10 different zones: