Colon

Colón is a city in . 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.
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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.

Church
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 .

Colon

Latitude
9.3553° or 9° 21′ 19″ north
Longitude
-79.8974° or 79° 53′ 51″ west
Population
281,000
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
Inception
1850
IATA airport code
ONX
United Nations Location Code
PA ONX
Open location code
67X29443+42
Open­Street­Map ID
node 339209702
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3712076
Wiki­data ID
Q12825018
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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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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 Wikivoyage page “Colon”. Photo: Balou46, CC BY-SA 4.0.