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Festival de la Rana Dorada in El Valle de Anton
El Valle de Anton, a mountain town set inside a volcanic crater, celebrates the critically endangered Panamanian golden frog, a species found only in this area, with cultural events tied to the frog's status as a national symbol.
El Valle de Anton sits inside the crater of an extinct volcano, one of the largest inhabited volcanic craters in the world, and that unusual geography has produced an unusually unusual resident: the Panamanian golden frog, a small, brightly colored amphibian found in the wild only in this immediate area and in the nearby Altos de Campana National Park.