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Boquete, Panama
Public transport, airport and rail connections, healthcare access and car ownership — each figure linked to the official publication it came from.
3 of 3 fields sourced from official publications. Every figure links to the body that published it and the period it describes. Where we don't have something, we say so rather than estimating.
✈️ Getting out
How far this place is from everywhere else — the thing most cost-of-living comparisons leave out.
Aeropuerto Internacional Enrique Malek (David) · DAV
Nearest airport
Enrique Malek (DAV), DavidOfficial statistic
Tocumen S.A. — Chiriquí / David · August 2026 · city figure
🏥 Healthcare access
Region: Chiriquí
CSS (contributory), MINSA (public facilities), or private care
Who the public system covers
CSS is a contributory social-insurance scheme covering enrolled contributors and registered dependents; MINSA operates public facilities generally accessible to the resident population; private care sits outside both.Official statistic
Caja de Seguro Social — Afiliación al Asegurado · August 2026 · national figure
Hospital beds per 1,000
Not published. INEC publishes the total number of hospital beds and the mid-year population estimate separately, and defines the indicator as beds divided by mid-year population times one thousand, but publishes no computed result. Relokato does not calculate it.
Hospital beds, national total
8,575 hospital beds — national total, urban and rural combinedOfficial statistic
Urban 6,650 and rural 1,925, as published.
INEC — Servicios de Salud: Año 2025, Cuadro 2 · 2025 · national figure
Mid-year population estimate
4,645,375 residents, mid-year estimateOfficial statistic
Projection for 1 July 2026 in the revised series published 26 January 2026, based on the 2023 Census. The District of Panama — not a metropolitan area — is projected at 1,272,688 in the same series.
INEC — Estimaciones y proyecciones de población, revisión 2023 · 1 July 2026 · national figure
Voluntary CSS enrolment (Seguro Voluntario, Ley 51 de 2005)Official step
- CSS states applications are made via tramites.css.gob.pa or in person at the Department of Employer Registration (Edificio 520, Clayton).
- For foreign-national applicants (Grupo B2) the published requirement lists a valid identity document or permanent-resident card, a sworn declaration of income with a minimum base of B/.500 per month, and proof of domicile or residency.
- CSS states medical examinations are paid in full by the applicant.
- CSS states coverage under this group is limited to disability, old-age, death, illness and maternity risks, and excludes unemployment and labour-risk coverage.
🚇 Getting around
🚗 Living without a car
Reported behaviour from official statistics — not a walkability score.
Journey-to-work modal split
Not published. Panama's 2023 census questionnaire contains no journey-to-work question, and no modal-split table appears in any INEC census volume.
📍 Neighbourhoods
Official statistics at the level each figure is actually reported. No verdicts on what an area is like.
Bajo Boquetecorregimiento figurename not yet verified
Alto Boquetecorregimiento figurename not yet verified
Los Naranjoscorregimiento figurename not yet verified
Jaramillocorregimiento figurename not yet verified
Calderacorregimiento figurename not yet verified
Other cities in Panama
Where these figures come from. Every number on this page is reproduced from a government body, a public transport operator, an airport authority or a national statistics office, and links back to the exact publication and the period it describes. We don't use cost-of-living aggregators. Where an official source doesn't publish something, the page says so rather than estimating.