Hawkey, James 1975 Journal Panama - Boquete area Hotel Fundadores, ~1100 meters, Boquete, Chiriqui Province, Panama 10 August small village of El Salto. The army maps proved to be outdated in that a foot path indicated branching off of this road less than a km from El Salto (and leading onward to Chiriqui Volcano) had been widened to an automobile sized road and we drove onward along this road. About 10 or 12 km past this point the road proved too rough for our VW Beetle but still could have easily been negotiated with a four-wheel drive vehicle with high clearance (as there had been no pavement since leaving Boquete, the road going increasingly rockier as one progressed). We continued along this road by foot from this point (elev. 1775 m) and stayed along it for the rest of the day. The army map indicates the road as a cart track continuing W from Boquete circling the S flank of Volcan de Chiriqui until an approximate elevation of 2700 m where it ends. However, I continued in that direction to 2140 m and jinked slightly less than this, and the road was still suitable for easy 4-wheel drive travel, having been evidently widened and maintained by bulldozers, etc, and showed no signs of stopping anywhere near that point.