Puerto Jimenez

In pre-Columbian times, it was inhabited by indigenous people from the so-called Bruncas group, which at the beginning of the conquest was the domain of Giriara cacique de Turrucaca, according to the account of Don Andrés de Cereceda of the trip made by Don Gil González Dávila, it was eight leagues about 45 kilometers) from Burica point.

Its history, in the past, is due to gold mining and logging before the Corcovado National Park was created. Locals in the region still do gold mining and forestry, much less since the entire region is now a protected habitat. Gold is found in the hills and as secondary deposits in the channels and slopes of rivers and streams.

There was a time when the gold rush threatened this "diamond". The first wave was unleashed in the 1930s when gold nuggets of up to one kilo were found. In 1960 another one came, and one more a few years after the park was created. The latter attracted several hundred miners. The government banned the presence of miners in 1986.

The town of Puerto Jiménez dates back to the 1960s, which with development has prospered to become one of the largest towns on the Osa Peninsula. It is the last town before entering Corcovado Park.

Has an estimated population of 5000 inhabitants