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The Portobelo and San Lorenzo fortifications are situated approximately 80 kilometres (50 mi) from each other on Panama's Atlantic coast. Portobelo's military structures provided a security cover on the Caribbean part of the Panama harbour whereas the fortifications at San Lorenzo protected the Chagres River at its mouth. [2]
Currently, the ruins of Fort San Lorenzo and the Chagres village site are contained within the 30,000 acres (12,000 ha) of the San Lorenzo Protected Area, all former Canal Zone territory. [ 11 ] In 1980, UNESCO declared Fort San Lorenzo, together with the fortified town of Portobelo about 30 miles (48 km) to the northeast, to be a World ...
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 ...
Henry Morgan's Panama expedition, also known as The Sack of Panama was a military expedition in which English privateers and French pirates commanded by Buccaneer Henry Morgan launched an attack with an army of 1,400 men with the purpose of capturing the rich Spanish city of Panama off the Pacific coast between 16 December 1670 and 5 March 1671 during the later stage of the Anglo-Spanish War.
The first site in Panama added to the list was the Fortifications on the Caribbean Side of Panama: Portobelo-San Lorenzo, in 1980. This site has been listed as endangered since 2012 because of environmental factors, lack of maintenance, and uncontrollable urban developments. [4]
San José, Cartago, Limón and Puntarenas Provinces, Costa Rica*; Bocas del Toro and Chiriquí Provinces, Panama 9°24′26″N 82°56′20″W / 9.40722°N 82.93889°W / 9.40722; -82.93889 ( Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National
Fortress of San Lorenzo el Real Chagres After the destruction of Portobelo the previous November, Vernon proceeded to remove the last Spanish stronghold in the area. He attacked the fortress of San Lorenzo el Real Chagres , in present-day Panama on the banks of the Chagres River , near Portobelo.
The Portobelo District [2] is one of the districts that make up the Colón Province, Panama. It covers an area of 397 km 2 , and the latest official estimate of population (for 2019) is 10,581. [ 3 ] The district capital is the town of Portobelo , the Spanish roadstead on the coast of Panama which replaced the original settlement of Nombre de ...