Chagres and Fort San Lorenzo
Chagres, once the chief Atlantic port on the isthmus of Panama, is now an abandoned village at the historical site of Fort San Lorenzo. The fort's ruins and the village site are located about 8 miles west of Colón, on a promontory overlooking the mouth of the Chagres River.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Ruin
- Description: fort in Panama
- Also known as: “Fuerte San Lorenzo”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pina and Fort Sherman.
Pina
Village
Piña is a corregimiento in Chagres District, Colón Province, Panama with a population of 836 as of 2010. Its population as of 1990 was 687; its population as of 2000 was 700. Pina is situated 7 km southwest of Chagres and Fort San Lorenzo.
Fort Sherman
Hamlet
Fort Sherman is a former United States Army base in Panama, located on Toro Point at the Caribbean end of the Panama Canal, on the western bank of the Canal directly opposite Colón. Fort Sherman is situated 7 km northeast of Chagres and Fort San Lorenzo.
Chagres and Fort San Lorenzo
- Categories: fort, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Corregimiento Cristóbal, Colón District, Colon, Panama, Central America, North America
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Chagres and Fort San Lorenzo” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Fort de San Lorenzo”
- Chinese: “圣洛伦索”
- Chinese: “聖洛倫索”
- Croatian: “San Lorenzo”
- Danish: “San Lorenzo”
- Dutch: “Fort San Lorenzo”
- Egyptian Arabic: “حصن سان لورينزو”
- Estonian: “Fort San Lorenzo”
- Estonian: “Püha Laurentiuse kindlus”
- French: “Chagres et Fort San Lorenzo”
- Georgian: “სან ლორენსოს ციხესიმაგრე”
- Georgian: “სან-ლორენსოს ციხესიმაგრე”
- Hebrew: “מצודת סן לורנסו”
- Italian: “Forte San Lorenzo”
- Japanese: “サン・ロレンゾ砦”
- Japanese: “シャグレとサン・ロレンソ砦”
- Russian: “Сан-Лоренсо (форт)”
- Russian: “Сан-Лоренсо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “San Lorenzo (Panama)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “San Lorenzo”
- Slovenian: “Utrdba San Lorenzo”
- Spanish: “Castillo de San Lorenzo”
- Spanish: “Castillo San Lorenzo de Chagres”
- Spanish: “Fuerte de San Lorenzo”
- Spanish: “San Lorenzo”
- Turkish: “Chagres ve San Lorenzo Kalesi”
- Ukrainian: “Форт Сан-Лоренсо (Панама)”
- Ukrainian: “Форт Сан-Лоренсо”
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Chagres and Fort San Lorenzo”. Photo: Garcia.dennis, CC BY-SA 4.0.