Parque Municipal Summit

The Parque Municipal Summit (Summit Municipal Park) is a botanical garden with a facility for rescue and wildlife rehabilitation of exotic and native wildlife in central Panama.

Many of the animals that arrive at the rescue center that cannot be returned to the wild, are displayed to the public in a well-kept zoo.

The park has 250 hectares (620 acres) in total area (of which 55 hectares (140 acres) belong to the botanical garden), which is located right next to the Soberania National Park, less than an hour's drive from Panama City, at about kilometer 18 on the road leading to Gamboa.

[2][3] In 1985, the area covered by this park was transferred to the administration of the Mayor’s office of Panama, thus establishing the Municipal Park and part of the restructured area into a Botanical Garden, converting it into a research center for development of tropical biology and horticulture.

Animals at the zoo include sloths, squirrels, alligators, owls, coyote, gray herons, gulls, parrots, jaguars, ocelots, margays, monkeys, agouti, puma, doves, foxes, lizards, and harpy eagles.