Chagres River
The Chagres River, in central Panama, is the largest river in the Panama Canal's drainage basin. The river is dammed twice, and the resulting reservoirs—Gatun Lake and Lake Alajuela—form an integral part of the canal and its water system.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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 River.
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 8 km northeast of Chagres River.
Chagres River
- Type: Stream
- Description: river
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Panama, Central America, North America
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Satellite Map
Discover Chagres River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Chagres River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر تشاغريس”
- Asturian: “Ríu Chagres”
- Catalan: “Riu Chagres”
- Cebuano: “Chagres River”
- Cebuano: “Río Chagres”
- Chinese: “查格雷斯河”
- Czech: “Chagres”
- Dutch: “Chagres”
- Esperanto: “Chagres”
- Finnish: “Chagresjoki”
- French: “río Chagres”
- French: “Río Chagres”
- German: “Río Chagres”
- Hebrew: “צ’אגרס”
- Hebrew: “צ’גרס”
- Irish: “Abhainn Chagres”
- Italian: “Chagres”
- Japanese: “チャグレス川”
- Latvian: “Čagresa”
- Lithuanian: “Čagresas”
- Lithuanian: “Čiagresas”
- Malayalam: “ചാഗ്രെസ് നദി”
- Persian: “رود چاگریس”
- Polish: “Chagres”
- Portuguese: “rio Chagres”
- Portuguese: “Rio Chagres”
- Romanian: “Râul Chagres”
- Russian: “Чагрес”
- Saterfriesisch: “Río Chagres”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chagres (rijeka)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chagres”
- Slovenian: “reka Chagres”
- Spanish: “Rio Chagres”
- Spanish: “Río Chagres”
- Swedish: “río Chagres”
- Ukrainian: “Чагрес (річка)”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Chagres”
- Welsh: “Afon Chagres”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as San Lorenzo and La Unión.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Chagres and Fort San Lorenzo and Paisaje Protegido San Lorenzo.
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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 River”. Photo: Julian.watkins, Public domain.