Americas
Americas is a locality in Colon, Panama. Americas is situated nearby to the village Gatún, as well as near the hamlet Fort Davis.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gatún and Fort Davis.
Gatún
Village
Photo: Cz ferenc, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gatun is a small town on the Atlantic Side of the Panama Canal, located south of the city of Colón at the point in which Gatun Lake meets the channel to the Caribbean Sea. Gatún is situated 4½ km northwest of Americas.
Fort Davis
Hamlet
Fort William D. Davis is a former U.S. Army fort near Gatun, Panama. It was transferred to Panama in 1995. Fort Davis is situated 5 km northwest of Americas.
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 north of Americas.
Americas
- Type: Locality
- Also known as: “The Americas”
- Location: Colon, Panama, Central America, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
9.25484° or 9° 15′ 17″ northLongitude
-79.88056° or 79° 52′ 50″ westNamed after
Américo VespucioOpen location code
67X27439+WQOpenStreetMap ID
node 12852227142OpenStreetMap feature
place=continent
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Americas” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الأمريكتان”
- Armenian: “Ամերիկա”
- Basque: “Amerika”
- Belarusian: “Амерыка”
- Breton: “Amerika”
- Burmese: “အမေရိက”
- Catalan: “Amèrica”
- Chinese: “Měizhōu”
- Chinese: “美洲”
- Czech: “Amerika”
- Danish: “Amerika”
- Dutch: “Amerika”
- Finnish: “Amerikka”
- French: “Amérique”
- Georgian: “ამერიკა”
- German: “Amerika”
- Greek: “Αμερική”
- Hebrew: “אמריקה”
- Hindi: “महाअमेरिका”
- Hungarian: “Amerika”
- Irish: “Críocha Mheiriceá”
- Italian: “America”
- Japanese: “アメリカ州”
- Kannada: “ಅಮೆರಿಕ”
- Korean: “아메리카”
- Kurdish: “Amerîka”
- Lithuanian: “Amerika”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Amerika”
- Norwegian: “Amerika”
- Occitan (post 1500): “America”
- Polish: “Ameryka”
- Portuguese: “América”
- Romanian: “America”
- Russian: “Америка”
- Serbian: “Америка”
- Spanish: “América”
- Swedish: “Amerika”
- Tatar: “Америка”
- Thai: “ทวีปอเมริกา”
- Ukrainian: “Америка”
- Vietnamese: “Châu Mỹ”
- Welsh: “Yr Amerig”
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