New Gorgona beach is a small town essentially residential, with beautiful white and black beaches on the Pacific Ocean. Located at 79.5 km from Panama City, you can get there through the Panamerican Highway. Take a left turn on the Highway where there’s a narrow pavement path surrounded by vegetation that will take you to a cobbled paving which leads into the beach.
Gorgona has three salt and pepper beaches with very bright black sand coming from the quartz and magnetite minerals as a result of the volcanic ground of the sleeping volcano in El Valle. One of its beaches called "Black Sand" is mainly used by the fishermen and verges on a green hill where there is another beach at its other side called "Gorgona Beach". Gorgona beach is wide and crowded and you can make out the neighbour town of Coronado in the distance, which you can also reach with a pleasant walk on the beach.
Malibu Beach is famous for being a surf spot and is located far away from the town which you can only reach by foot or a 4 wheel vehicle through the sand. You can walk for miles and reach to virgen places where human race hasn’t intervened yet. After a good walk, you will find the ocean mingle with the river forming an estuary and a sand island in a place surrounded by nature and mountains. There is enough wood for bonfires and camping.
Gorgona has many options of accommodations where you can just choose to spend the day at the beach, restaurants, stores with a variety of products and a police station. Due to its closeness to Coronado city, you can enjoy the big infrastructure of services this place has to offer.
