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Colón City
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sea port on the Caribbean Sea (Atlantic) coast of Panama
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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Place details
- Locality
- Barrio Norte
- Region
- Colón
- Country
- Panamá
- Population
- 76,643
- Timezone
- America/Panama
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Official name
- Ciudad de Colón
- Country
- Panama
- Located in
- Colón District
- Population
- 241817
- Elevation
- 9
- Body of water
- Caribbean Sea
- Capital of
- Colón Province
- Official website
- municipiocolon.gob.pa
- Image
- CO-colon-2000-02.jpg
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- twinned administrative body
- Santos
- Commons category
- Colón, Panama
- topic's main category
- Category:Colón, Panama
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Colón, Panama
- category for people born here
- Q9224303
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Colón, Panama
- inception
- 1850-00-00
- native label
- Ciudad de Colón
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
History
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