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Compared to the other communities north of Panama City, Alford is more developed and has more paved intersections, among them County Road 1656 (formerly State Road 276A). Three blocks later, the first of which includes the Alford Post Office, the concurrency with County Road 276 begins at the Park Avenue/Park Road intersection.
Altos de Campana National Park; Barro Colorado Island; Cerro Hoya National Park; Chagres National Park; Coiba National Park; Darién National Park; Omar Torrijos "El Cope" National Park; Golfo de Chiriquí National Park; Isla Bastimentos National Marine Park; La Amistad International Park; Las Cruces Trail National Park; Metropolitan National ...
Metropolitan Natural Park. The Metropolitan Natural Park (Parque Natural Metropolitano) is a protected area located in Panama City, Panama. It is the only wildlife refuge in the city. The origins of this park date back to 1974, when the first steps were taken for the optimal use of the area near the Panama Canal.
The park includes nine softball fields, two tee ball fields, three soccer fields, four multi-purpose football fields, four tennis courts, two outdoor basketball courts, two shuffleboard courts, one indoor gym, one playground, one large group picnic pavilion, one Freshwater Youth Fishing pond, one 22-acre (89,000 m 2) festival site, one fenced dog play area, one aquatic center and 1.5 miles (2. ...
It runs for 912 miles (1,468 km) from St. John, Indiana, at US 41 to south of US 98 in downtown Panama City, Florida. One of its most notable landmarks is the William H. Natcher Bridge , a 0.853 miles (1.373 km) long cable-stayed bridge that connects Rockport, Indiana , to Owensboro, Kentucky , spanning the Ohio River .
Panama City, [4] also known as Panama (or Panamá in Spanish), is the capital and largest city of Panama. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It has a total population of 1,086,990, [ 1 ] [ 7 ] with over 2,100,000 in its metropolitan area.
As of June 1, 2009, the route between US 98 (Back Beach Road) at Panama City Beach and SR 20 at Ebro was being expanded to four lanes. A second bridge over the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway at West Bay has been completed and is now open making the four lane complete for about a 5-mile (8.0 km) stretch from US 98 northward to the intersection of SR 79 and SR 388 at West Bay.
Until 1979, when the Canal Zone as a solely U.S. territory was abolished under the terms of the Panama Canal Treaties, the town of Balboa was the administrative center of the Canal Zone, and remained so until midday on December 31, 1999, by which time, according to the Torrijos-Carter Treaties, the Panama Canal and all its assets and territories were fully returned to the Panamanian government.