Cristóbal
Cristóbal is a port town and corregimiento in Colón District, Colón Province, Panama. The corregimiento has a population of 49,422 as of 2010. The town is located on the western edge of Manzanillo Island, on the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Neighborhood with 2,370 residents
- Description: human settlement in Panama
- Also known as: “Christobal”, “Cristobal”, and “Cristóbal, Colón”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Edificio de Administración de Cristóbal and Parque 5 de noviembre.
Edificio de Administración de Cristóbal
Historic building
Photo: Daniestrada01, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Edificio de Administración de Cristóbal is a historic building.
Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Colón
Church
Photo: Dayarit Sue, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Immaculate Conception Cathedral or Cathedral of Colón and more formally called the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of Mary is a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church, and located in the city of Colón to the north of Panama.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Colon and Fort Sherman.
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.
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 5 km west of Cristóbal.
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 6 km southeast of Cristóbal.
Cristóbal
- Categories: corregimiento of Panama, town, and locality
- Location: Corregimiento Cristóbal, Colón District, Colon, Panama, Central America, North America
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Latitude
9.353° or 9° 21′ 11″ northLongitude
-79.90456° or 79° 54′ 16″ westPopulation
2,370Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)United Nations Location Code
PA CTBOpen location code
67X2933W+65OpenStreetMap ID
node 2606132098OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Spanish—“Cristóbal” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Cristóbal”
- Cebuano: “Cristóbal”
- Chinese: “克里斯托弗”
- Dutch: “Cristobal”
- Dutch: “Cristobál”
- Dutch: “Cristóbal”
- French: “Cristóbal”
- German: “Cristóbal”
- Italian: “Cristobàl”
- Italian: “Cristóbal”
- Japanese: “クリストバル (パナマ)”
- Japanese: “クリストバル”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cristóbal”
- Polish: “Cristóbal”
- Portuguese: “Cristóbal”
- Spanish: “Cristobal”
- Spanish: “Cristóbal”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Plaza Cristobol and Ministerio Público.
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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 “Cristóbal”. Photo: Cz ferenc, CC BY-SA 3.0.