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The fortifications on the Caribbean Side of Panama: Portobelo - San Lorenzo are military constructions, built by the Spanish Empire during the 17th and 18th centuries on the Caribbean coastline of Colón Province in Panama. The ruins are located on the coast of the province of Colón. In view of their cultural importance, the sites have been ...
Latin America and the Caribbean. Chagres (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈtʃaɣɾes]), once the chief Atlantic port on the isthmus of Panama, is now an abandoned village at the historical site of Fort San Lorenzo (Spanish: Fuerte de San Lorenzo). The fort's ruins and the village site are located about 8 miles (13 km) west of Colón, on a promontory ...
Fort Amador. Coordinates: 8°56′17″N 79°32′52″W. Fort Amador (Spanish: Fuerte Amador) and Fort Grant were former United States Army bases built to protect the Pacific (southern) end of the Panama Canal at Panama Bay. Amador was the primary on-land site, lying below the Bridge of the Americas. Grant consisted of a series of islands ...
Portobelo (Modern Spanish: "Puerto Bello" ("beautiful port"), historically in Portuguese: Porto Belo) is a historic port and corregimiento in Portobelo District, Colón Province, Panama. Located on the northern part of the Isthmus of Panama, it is 32 km (20 mi) northeast of the modern port of Colón now at the Atlantic entrance to the Panama ...
Fort Sherman. Coordinates: 9.36302°N 79.953035°W. Ft. Sherman, Panama in 1986. Fort Sherman is a former United States Army base in Panama, located on Toro Point at the Caribbean (northern) end of the Panama Canal, on the western bank of the Canal directly opposite Colón (which is on the eastern bank). It was the primary defensive base for ...
Fort Gulick. Coordinates: 9°19′N 79°52′W. Buildings of the Escuela de las Americas (2006) Fort Gulick was a United States Army base in the former Panama Canal Zone located on the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal near Fort Davis, on Gatun Lake.
The town was founded by Spanish missionaries as San Jerónimo de Yaviza in September 1638. [3] A Spanish fort (Fuerte de San Geronimo de Yaviza) was built in 1760, and heavily damaged by an attack of the Indigenous Guna in 1780. [4] A flood destroyed half of the remaining ruins in the mid-20th century. [5] Map of the Darién Gap and the break ...
Panama City Tocumen airport is the hub, and the busiest airport in all of Central America. City served ... El Real Airport: Fuerte Sherman: Colón Province: MPFS