Barro Colorado Island
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Barro Colorado Island is located in the man-made Gatun Lake in the middle of the Panama Canal. The island was formed when the waters of the Chagres River were dammed to form the lake in 1913. When the
The Barro Colorado Research Station is run by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute is located in Panama and is the only bureau of the Smithsonian Institution based outside of the United States. It is dedicated to understanding the past, pr
Barro Colorado Island
…most-studied areas of tropical forest in the world. The Nature Monument has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International. The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) has a permanent research center on the island, dedicated to studying tropical forest ecosystems. Because the Island's diverse ecosystem has been…
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