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Cristóbal is a port town and corregimiento in Colón District, Colón Province, Panama. The corregimiento has a population of 49,422 as of 2010. [1] The town is located on the western edge of Manzanillo Island, on the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal. Cristóbal Colón is the Spanish translation for Christopher Columbus, the Genovese explorer ...
Manzanillo International Terminal (abbreviation: MIT, UN/LOCODE: PAMIT) is located east of the Atlantic opening of the Panama Canal on Manzanillo Bay, Colón Province, Panama. MIT is a distribution center for cargo destined for cities within Panama and nearby countries in Central America and the Caribbean. It is one of the largest container ...
"Aeronautical Map of Panama" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-02-27. (1.59 MiB) "ICAO Location Indicators by State" . International Civil Aviation Organization. 2006-01-12. "UN Location Codes: Panama] [includes IATA codes". UN/LOCODE 2006-2. UNECE. 2007-04-30. Lists of airports in Panama: Great Circle Mapper; FallingRain.com
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The 1914 boundary treaty made Colón an exclave of the Republic of Panama entirely surrounded by the Panama Canal Zone. Under the 1936 Hull–Alfaro Treaty , the United States ceded the "Colón Corridor" from the Canal Zone; this was a strip under Panamanian jurisdiction just wide enough to build a road 4 miles (6.4 km) long connecting the city ...
Bocas del Toro. District. Bocas del Toro. Cristóbal Island (in Spanish: Isla San Cristóbal, or Saint Christopher 's Island) is a mostly deforested 37 km 2 island located south of Isla Colón, [1] in the Bocas del Toro Archipelago, Panama. It is home to the indigenous Ngäbe or Guaymí people and a small number of expatriates.
In 1501, Rodrigo de Bastidas was the first European to explore the Isthmus of Panama sailing along the eastern coast. A year later Christopher Columbus on his fourth voyage, sailing south and eastward from upper Central America, explored Bocas del Toro, Veragua, the Chagres River and Portobelo (Beautiful Port) which he named.
With the return of the Canal Zone to Panama on 31 December 1999, American control ended and the airport was renamed for Enrique Adolfo Jiménez, who served as Panamanian president from 1945 to 1948. On August 20, 2013, Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli opened the new Enrique A. Jimenez International Airport. The new terminal can serve up ...