The complex forests that shape the Santa Maria Watershed are a network of mountain ecosystems, which are categorized within six protected areas of Panama and covering a total of more than 89 thousand hectares.

The forests of the watershed play a key role as water providers to more than 200,000 people in fourteen Local Governments and divided into three provinces and indigenous region.

In response to the deforestation of the forests in the watershed, we development of co-creation workshops in the Upper, Middle and Lower Parts of the watershed. Establishment of green infrastructure of native trees of fruits and timber .