成立时间最早可追溯到1923年科学家对巴拿马运河周围热带植物防控虫媒疾病的研究，现在市世界极具领导力的热带研究中心以增加和分享关于热带生态系统过去、现在和未来知识，以及与人类福利相关的知识为目的。为科学家和访问学者提供设备进行研究，帮助对热带雨林和海洋生态系统及其生物多样性进行开创性研究。

Founded in 1923, scientists' research on the prevention and control of insect-borne diseases by tropical plants around the Panama Canal is now the city's world-leading Tropical Research Center with the aim of increasing and sharing knowledge about the past, present and future of tropical ecosystems, as well as knowledge related to human welfare. Provide scientists and visiting scholars with equipment to conduct research and help conduct groundbreaking research into tropical rainforests and marine ecosystems and their biodiversity.