The season features a new twist that originally came from Survivor: Palau called Exile Island. Each week at least one castaway is banished for the time period between the reward challenge and the immunity challenge on Exile Island. The exile is given a single machete, a flint, a pot and a bucket of non-sanitized water. The island also contained a hidden immunity idol that could be used at tribal council after the votes have been cast. This gave the person who found the idol a strategic advantage because that person can keep the idol secret until he or she was voted off, which would cause the person with the second largest number of votes to be eliminated. As it developed, Terry found the idol and never needed to use it at a vote, but his possession of it appeared to influence how several other people voted.

The game began by splitting the 16 players into four tribes by sex and age: young men (Viveros, wearing green), older men (La Mina, wearing orange), young women (Bayoneta, wearing blue) and older women (Casaya, wearing purple). During the second episode the Viveros and Bayoneta tribes were dissolved and in a schoolyard pick'em with only Casaya and La Mina making two new integrated tribes. The remaining 10 contestants, who merged into one tribe, decided on the name Gitanos (wearing black) that was Spanish for "Gypsies". In a rather interesting coincidence, each of the original four tribes was represented in the final four contestants.

On 8 June 2006 Survivor: Panama was made available on Apple's iTunes store.

In a 5-2 vote, Aras Baskauskas defeated Danielle DiLorenzo to take the $1 million prize.

• Official CBS Survivor Panama Website
• Survivor Fever
• Survivor Maps
• SURVIVOR Podcast
• Episode guidefrom TV.com
• Aras Baskauskas interview

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