The mangrove ecosystem has a few species of trees with adaptation to live in zones with periodical tide. The most ancient fossil record of mangrove species is from Eocene, in the Indo – Malaysian region and west Gondwana. In Panama we can find 8 of the 49 mangrove trees of the world species. We can to see the mangrove forest in the Caribbean and Pacific coastal. The mangrove forest is an ecosystem that has many products and ecological services to offer. But, the mangrove forests are in a degradation process and they are losing their superficies.