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. Cristobal Port Area.Photo: Balou46, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Colón
Photo: Dayarit Sue, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Immaculate Conception Cathedral or Cathedral of Colón and more formally called the Cathedral…
Edificio de Administración de Cristóbal
Photo: Daniestrada01, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Edificio de Administración de Cristóbal is a historic building.
Colon
- Type: City with 78,000 residents
- Description: sea port on the Caribbean Sea (Atlantic) coast of Panama
- 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
78,000Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)Inception
1850IATA airport code
ONXUnited Nations Location Code
PA ONXOpen Location Code
67X29443+42OpenStreetMap ID
node 339209702OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3712076Wikidata ID
Q12825018Colon Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Colón, Panama
- Arabic: كولون
- Arabic: كولون، بنما
- 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
- English: Aspinwall
- English: Ciudad de Colón
- English: Colón, Panama
- English: Colón
- English: Colón City
- Esperanto: Kolonurbo
- 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
- 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: Colón
- Norwegian Bokmål: Colón
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Colón
- Ossetian: Колон (Панамæ)
- Ossetian: Колон
- Persian: کلون (پاناما)
- Persian: کلون
- Pite Sami: Colón
- Polish: Colon
- Polish: Colón
- Portuguese: Ciudad de Colón
- Portuguese: Colón
- Portuguese: Colón, Panamá
- Russian: Колон (Панама)
- Russian: Колон
- Serbian: Колон (Панама)
- Serbian: Колон
- Serbo-Croatian: Colón (Panama)
- Serbo-Croatian: Colón
- Sinhala: කොලෝන්
- Slovenian: Colón, Panama
- Slovenian: Colón
- Southern Sami: Colón
- Spanish: Ciudad de Colón
- Spanish: Colón
- Spanish: Colón, Panamá
- Swahili: Colón
- Swedish: Aspinwall
- Swedish: Colón, Panama
- Swedish: Colón
- Tamil: கொலோன்
- Tatar: Колон (Панама)
- Tatar: Колон
- Telugu: కోలోన్
- Thai: โกลอน
- Turkish: Colon
- Turkish: Colón, Panama
- Turkish: Colón
- Ukrainian: Колон
- Urdu: کولون، پاناما
- Uzbek: Kolon
- Venetian: Colón
- Vietnamese: Colon
- Waray (Philippines): Ciudad de Colon
- Waray (Philippines): Colón
- Yue Chinese: 告郎
Other Places Named Colon
Localities in the Area
- CristóbalNeighbourhood
- Monte EsperanzaNeighbourhood
- Panama CityHamlet
- Coco SoloNeighbourhood
- Sagrada ResurecciónNeighbourhood
Popular Destinations in Central Panama
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Colon. Photo: Balou46, CC BY-SA 4.0.