Ngobe indians is the most aboundant ethnia in the Bocas del Toro Archipelago, existing several comunities in the islands Colon, Bastimentos, Solarte, Cristobal, Popa and Water Cay.

Ngobes, together with bugles, has their own Reserve (Comarca) in the main land. Here, out of the reserve, they are mixed in the main towns (Bocas del Toro and Bastimentos) with the other groups: afrocaribbeans, latins and chinese, while in other places they are the 100% of the inhabitants.

Several ecotourism projects, build with funds of international and national organizations and institutions, are running in the islands.

The other indigenous ethnia with a project in the Bocas del Toro Province, are the nasos or teribes, a small group that inhabit the jungle mountains that separate Bocas del Toro from Chiriqui Province, in the La Amistad International Park. The nasos are the only, in the Americas, who government model is a kingdom.

This naso teribe organization, ODESEN, is based on the Administrative Headquarters of the Park, at Wekso, on the Teribe River shores, in a spectacular place where the river runs down from the high mountains, leaving at both sides a dense jungle where many animal and vegetal species remains as they were for many years.