Balboa

Balboa is a district of , located at the Pacific entrance to the . It was the capital of the Panama Canal Zone under American administration. The Panama Canal Authority has its main headquarters on Balboa Heights.
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  • Type: Neighborhood with 807 residents
  • Description: town in Panama
  • Also known as: “Balboa, Panama”, “バルボア (都市)”, “バルボア港”, “巴波啞”, “巴爾波亞”, and “格蘭迪”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Bridge of the Americas and Ancon Hill.

Bridge
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The is a road bridge in …

Peak
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Ancón Hill is a 199 metres high hill that overlooks…

Museum
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The Museum of Contemporary Art of Panama, popularly…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Panama City and Casco Antiguo.

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Capital of and the most populous city in the…

Quarter
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Capital of and the most populous city in the…

Balboa

Latitude
8.9495° or 8° 56′ 58″ north
Longitude
-79.5529° or 79° 33′ 10″ west
Population
807
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
IATA airport code
BLB
UN/LOCODE
PA BLB
Open location code
67W2WCXW+RR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2606132097
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­neighbourhood
Geo­Names ID
3714426
Wiki­data ID
Q2078026
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Yue Chinese—“Balboa” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Balboa”
  • Catalan: “Balboa”
  • Cebuano: “Balboa”
  • Chinese: “巴尔博亚”
  • Chinese: “巴尔沃亚”
  • Chinese: “巴波亞”
  • Chinese: “巴爾博亞”
  • Czech: “Balboa”
  • Dutch: “Balboa”
  • Finnish: “Balboa”
  • French: “Balboa”
  • Galician: “Balboa”
  • Georgian: “ბალბოა”
  • German: “Balboa”
  • Hebrew: “בלבואה”
  • Italian: “Balboa”
  • Japanese: “バルボア”
  • Lithuanian: “Balboa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Balboa”
  • Norwegian: “Balboa”
  • Polish: “Balboa”
  • Portuguese: “Balboa”
  • Russian: “Бальбоа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Balboa (Panama)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Balboa”
  • Slovenian: “Balboa”
  • Spanish: “Balboa”
  • Swedish: “Balboa, Panama”
  • Swedish: “Balboa”
  • Turkish: “Balboa, Panama”
  • Turkish: “Balboa”
  • Ukrainian: “Бальбоа”
  • Urdu: “بالبوا، پاناما”
  • Urdu: “بالبوا”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴波亞”

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