Colón City
sea port on the Caribbean Sea (Atlantic) coast of Panama
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Colón City is a major seaport located on Panama's Caribbean coast that serves as a key hub for international maritime trade. It matters because of its strategic location near the Panama Canal, making it one of the world's most important ports for shipping between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
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- Locality
- Barrio Norte
- Region
- Colón
- Country
- Panamá
- Population
- 76,643
- Timezone
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Colón ( Spanish pronunciation: [koˈlon]) is a city and seaport in Panama, beside the Caribbean Sea, lying near the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal. It is the capital of Panama's Colón Province and has traditionally been known as Panama's second city. City proper located entirely on Manzanillo Peninsula (former island), surrounded by Limon Bay, Manzanillo Bay, and the Folks River. Since the disestablishment of the Panama Canal Zone, suburban corregimiento of Cristobal to include Fort Gulick, a former U.S. Army base, as well as the towns of Cristobal and Margarita; and recent corregimiento of Cristóbal Este [es] now include the town of Coco Solo.
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1850 establishments in the Republic of New GranadaColón, PanamaColón ProvinceFormer exclavesFormer islandsPanama CanalPopulated coastal places in PanamaPopulated places established in 1850Populated places in Colón ProvincePort cities and towns in the CaribbeanPort settlements in Central AmericaTranscontinental cities