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Solarte Island

Caribbean island belonging to Panama

Field	Value
name	Solarte Island
native_name	Isla Solarte
sobriquet
map_image	Bocas_del_Toro_Archipelago_map.png
map_caption	Bocas del Toro Archipelago
coordinates
archipelago	Bocas del Toro Archipelago
area_km2	8
length_km
width_km
coastline_km
elevation_m	0
highest_mount
country	Panama
country_admin_divisions_title	Province
country_admin_divisions	Bocas del Toro
country_admin_divisions_title_1	District
country_admin_divisions_1	Bocas del Toro
population	285

Solarte Island (in Spanish: Isla Solarte), also known as Nancy's Cay, (in Spanish: Cayo Nancy) is an 8 km2 island located only 1 mile east of Bocas del Toro, in the Bocas del Toro Province, Panama. The two hundred Ngöbe Buglé fishing community lives on the island without electricity or telephone system, capturing water from a well.

A medical facility, later known as Hospital Point (in Spanish: Punta Hospital), was built upon a hill on the western end of the island by the United Fruit Company for treatment of patients with yellow fever and malaria in 1899 but it was decommissioned and moved to Almirante in 1920.

Environment

The island is part of the Bocas del Toro Important Bird Area (IBA), designated as such by BirdLife International because it supports significant populations of white-crowned pigeons and three-wattled bellbirds.

References

0-470-37183-8
1-84162-260-5
Clyde Stevens. "Historia de Punta Hospital". Bocas del Toro Web Portal.
1-59880-243-7
. (2024). ["Bocas del Toro Archipelago"](https://datazone.birdlife.org/site/factsheet/bocas-del-toro-archipelago-iba-panama). *BirdLife International*.

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