Discover Santa Catalina is an independent travel guide founded and edited by Guillem Gallego for travelers researching Santa Catalina, Coiba Island and Panama's wild Pacific coast.
The goal is to be useful before anything else: practical trip planning, careful local verification, clear disclaimers and honest guidance without fake reviews or invented schedules.
Guillem Gallego, founder and editor
Guillem sets the editorial direction, maintains the website and coordinates corrections and local verification. Articles carry his name so readers can identify who is responsible for the published guidance.
What we publish
We focus on Coiba planning, Santa Catalina hotels, surf, diving, snorkeling, restaurants, transport, itineraries and cautious investment research in Santa Catalina. The site is intentionally narrow: Santa Catalina first, broader Panama later.
How accuracy works
We separate stable planning advice from details that change quickly. We avoid presenting exact prices, bus times, restaurant hours and business rankings as current unless they have been checked recently and can be maintained.
Selection method
Online research is not an in-person visit or an endorsement. Where a source-check date is given, it describes that check, not a guarantee that the details remain unchanged. Illustrative or generated images are not evidence of a visit. Before paying, confirm prices, inclusions, safety requirements and cancellation terms with the provider.
Accommodation, restaurant and tour research starts with official business sources and current booking or map platforms. A business is not described as verified until its identity, location, contact route and relevant traveler details have been checked. Paid relationships must be labeled and do not buy a positive editorial opinion.
Editorial position
This guide may earn revenue through affiliates, transparent advertising, relevant travel leads and future eco-stay announcements. That commercial layer must not override usefulness, verification or clear labeling.
If you spot an update, correction or missing detail, please contact us.