Fortuna Forest Reserve lies in the eastern foothills of the Cordillera de Talamanca near the transition to the Cordillera Central (Panamá) [es].

The Cerro Chorcha is the highest point of the Fortuna Forest Reserve at 2,213 m above sea level.

[2] The reserve has the highest number of endemic species of any protected area in Panama.

Bird species in the reserve include the resplendent quetzal and military macaw.

[1] In 2001 an agreement was signed with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and since then various scientific studies have been carried out in the reserve, such as on disappearing amphibian populations and the influence of climate change on epiphytes.