The island of San Cristobal occupies an important sector of the Admiral Bay. This island, when talking of tourism, is ignored most of the times, lacking of valuable forests, except on the south, but very rich in marine environments.

San Cristobal is, probably, the most important ngobe indian village of the island, and one of the main communities of region, due to it is close to Bocas del Toro.

The have electricity (generator), public phone and a primary school with more than one hundred students. The villagers grow vegetables (cocoa, yuca, rice) and farm animals (chicken, pigs), and make beautiful handicrafts, but the most important activities are fishing and working in the commerce and government based on Bocas del Toro town.

Just outside of the community, in the sea, is located a deep channel that runs paralell with the coast. There is easy to see, passing very close, the ships that load, in the port of Almirante, banana from the Changuinola plantations destined to Europe and North America.