Colon
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 281,000 residents
- Description: sea port on the Caribbean Sea (Atlantic) coast of Panama
- Also known as: “Aspinwall”, “Ciudad de Colón”, “Colón”, “Colón City”, and “Colón, Panama”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Colón and Biblioteca Mateo Iturralde.
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.
Biblioteca Mateo Iturralde
Library
Photo: SandySB, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Biblioteca Mateo Iturralde is a library.
Edificio de Administración de Cristóbal
Historic building
Photo: Daniestrada01, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Edificio de Administración de Cristóbal is a historic building.
Colon
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Barrio Sur, Colón District, Colon, Central Panama, Panama, Central America, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
9.3553° or 9° 21′ 19″ northLongitude
-79.8974° or 79° 53′ 51″ westPopulation
281,000Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)Inception
1850IATA airport code
ONXUnited Nations Location Code
PA ONXOpen location code
67X29443+42OpenStreetMap ID
node 339209702OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
Discover Colon from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Colon” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كولون”
- Armenian: “Կոլոն”
- Asturian: “Colón City”
- Aymara: “Colón”
- Belarusian: “Калон”
- Bengali: “কোলন”
- Bulgarian: “Колон”
- Catalan: “Colón”
- Cebuano: “Colón (kapital sa lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Colón”
- Chinese: “告郎”
- Chinese: “科隆”
- Chinese: “科隆港”
- Croatian: “Colón”
- Czech: “Colón”
- Danish: “Colón”
- Dutch: “Colon”
- Dutch: “Colón”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كولون, بنما”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كولون”
- Esperanto: “Kolonurbo”
- Estonian: “Colón (Panama)”
- Estonian: “Colón”
- Faroese: “Colón”
- Finnish: “Colón”
- French: “Colon”
- French: “Colón”
- Galician: “Colón, Panamá”
- Galician: “Colón”
- Georgian: “კოლონი”
- German: “Colón”
- Greek: “Κολόν”
- Gujarati: “કોલન”
- Hebrew: “קולון”
- Hindi: “कोलोन”
- Hungarian: “Colón”
- Icelandic: “Colón”
- Iloko: “Colón”
- Indonesian: “Colón, Panama”
- Indonesian: “Colón”
- Irish: “Cathair Colón”
- Italian: “Colón”
- Japanese: “コロン”
- Kannada: “ಕೊಲೊನ್”
- Korean: “콜론”
- Ladino: “Colón”
- Latvian: “Kolona”
- Lithuanian: “Kolonas”
- Lule Sami: “Colón”
- Malay: “Colon”
- Marathi: “कॉलोन”
- Northern Sami: “Colón”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Colón”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Colón”
- Norwegian: “Colón”
- Ossetian: “Колон”
- Persian: “کلون”
- Pite Sami: “Colón”
- Polish: “Colon”
- Polish: “Colón”
- Portuguese: “Ciudad de Colón”
- Portuguese: “Colón, Panamá”
- Portuguese: “Colón”
- Russian: “Колон (Панама)”
- Russian: “Колон”
- Serbian: “Колон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Colón”
- Sinhala: “කොලෝන්”
- Slovenian: “Colón, Panama”
- Slovenian: “Colón”
- Southern Sami: “Colón”
- Spanish: “Ciudad de Colón”
- Spanish: “Colón, Panamá”
- Spanish: “Colón”
- Swahili: “Colón”
- Swedish: “Aspinwall”
- Swedish: “Colón, Panama”
- Swedish: “Colón”
- Tamil: “கொலோன்”
- Tatar: “Колон”
- Telugu: “కోలోన్”
- Thai: “โกลอน”
- Turkish: “Colón, Panama”
- Turkish: “Colon”
- Turkish: “Colón”
- Ukrainian: “Колон”
- Urdu: “کولون، پاناما”
- Urdu: “کولون”
- Uzbek: “Kolon”
- Venetian: “Colón”
- Vietnamese: “Colon”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ciudad de Colon”
- Waray (Philippines): “Colón, Panama”
- Waray (Philippines): “Colón”
- Yue Chinese: “告郎”
- “Colón”
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