Gatún
Gatun is a small town on the Atlantic Side of the Panama Canal, located south of the city of Colón at the point in which Gatun Lake meets the channel to the Caribbean Sea.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Cz ferenc, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: human settlement in Panama
- Also known as: “Gatun”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gatún Northbound Rear Lighthouse and Atlantic Entrance Range Middle Lighthouse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fort Davis and Fort Gulick.
Fort Davis
Hamlet
Fort William D. Davis is a former U.S. Army fort near Gatun, Panama. It was transferred to Panama in 1995.
Fort Gulick
Hamlet
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. Fort Gulick is situated 7 km northeast of Gatún.
Colon
Photo: Luis8ortega, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Colón is a city in Central Panama. It's the Caribbean end of the Panama Canal. The town is in poor condition and notorious for its high crime rate, but it is worth driving around to look at the culture, people and architecture.
Gatún
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Corregimiento Cristóbal, Colón District, Colon, Panama, Central America, North America
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Latitude
9.27067° or 9° 16′ 14″ northLongitude
-79.91823° or 79° 55′ 6″ westElevation
36 metres (118 feet)United Nations Location Code
PA GTNOpen location code
67X273CJ+7POpenStreetMap ID
node 5867099740OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3709294Wikidata ID
Q5527571
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Spanish—“Gatún” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Gatún”
- German: “Gatún”
- Irish: “Gatún”
- Spanish: “Gatún (ciudad)”
- Spanish: “Gatún”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Atlantic Entrance Range Rear Lighthouse and Gatun Locks Visitor Center.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Gatún”. Photo: Cz ferenc, CC BY-SA 3.0.