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Right in front of the Bocas del Toro Town, in the Colon Island, there is a small cay inhabited by black of afroantillano origin, mestizos, ngobe indians and foreigners. The locals live in houses that in their majority are constructed with wood with zinc roof and a minority of wood with palm ceiling.
The foreigners have constructed hotels, restaurants and houses using the local materials and following their architectonic style. It only takes 3 minutes, in boat, to cross the channel that separates Carenero from Bocas del Toro
The origin of the name is the word careneer that means a place use to repair the ships. It is known that Christophorus Columbus, during his 4th trip in 1502, when discover Bocas del Toro, stop in this island to fix his ships. Later, many other
navigators, pirates and spanish conquerors, use this place for the same task.
In our times, Carenero was first a fisherman colony and today is a prosperous and beatiful site of several tourist business: beach hotels and restaurants offer to the visitors their services in a magnificent environment. The cay counts with very small beaches and, in the north, good places for surfing.
The way to arrive to the community is using one of the marine taxis that are parked besides the "Barco Hundido Discoteque" or from the dock of Taxi 25, a marine taxi operation. Numerous docks brings to the residents a way to arrive fast to their own places, it is only to tell to the drive of the boat the place where you want to go, business or family name.
The ways of the community are partially paved, there exist a primary school, electricity, telephone and potable water, all of them originated on Bocas del Toro town, just in front.
The more important local activities, are fishing, employ in the commerce and the government in Bocas, and the transportation of tourists to the most attractive sites of the region.
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