| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| Panama |
City / Town : Colon
|
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Ships waiting to enter the Panama Canal off the coast of Colon.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
City / Town : Colon
|
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The entrance to the Panama Canal.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
City / Town : Colon
|
 |
Dredger.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
City / Town : Colon
|
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Pilot boats.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
City / Town : Colon
|
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Colon docks.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
City / Town : Colon
|
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The sea near Colon is a very busy shipping area.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
City / Town : Portobello
|
 |
Portobello is a village on the Caribbean coast of Panama.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
City / Town : Portobello
|
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Sea food (and bread) stall.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
City / Town : Portobello
|
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Boat repair yard.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
City / Town : Portobello
|
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Wooden house.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
City / Town : Portobello
|
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Village street.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
City / Town : Portobello
|
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The Church of San Filipe dates from 1814.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
City / Town : Portobello
|
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The Church of San Filipe is famous for its Black Christ.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
City / Town : Portobello
District : Drake Island
|
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The island of Drake is named after Frances Drake, a British pirate.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
City / Town : Portobello
District : Drake Island
|
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Frances Drake is buried here after dying of dysentry in 1596.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
City / Town : Portobello
Site / Event : Portabello Fort
|
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Portobello Fort is 35km from Colon .
|
1995 |
| Panama |
City / Town : Portobello
Site / Event : Portabello Fort
|
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The fort is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
City / Town : Portobello
Site / Event : Portabello Fort
|
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The fort was attacked by several British pirates including Frances Drake and Henry Morgan.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
City / Town : Portobello
Site / Event : Portabello Fort
|
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The present village is built among the ruins.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
City / Town : Portobello
Site / Event : Portabello Fort
|
 |
Portobello (Italian for beautiful port) was named by Christopher Columbus in 1502.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
City / Town : Portobello
Site / Event : Portabello Fort
|
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The fort protected a major port used by the Spanish for transferring gold from Peru.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
City / Town : Portobello
Site / Event : Portabello Fort
|
 |
Santiago Battery is a series of cannons on two levels dating from 1760.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
City / Town : Portobello
Site / Event : Portabello Fort
|
 |
The fort was destroyed in 1739 by Edward Vernon.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
City / Town : Portobello
Site / Event : Portabello Fort
|
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After the British victory over the fort a street in London was renamed Portobello Road.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
City / Town : Portobello
Site / Event : Portabello Fort
|
 |
Custom House is next to the village.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
City / Town : Portobello
Site / Event : Portobello Fort
|
 |
The Custom House beyond a row of cannons.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
City / Town : Portobello
Site / Event : Portabello Fort
|
 |
The fort overlooks a bay.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
City / Town : Portobello
Site / Event : Portabello Fort
|
 |
Fort of Santiago de la Gloria.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
City / Town : Portobello
Site / Event : Portabello Fort
|
 |
San Geronimo Battery.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
City / Town : Portobello
Site / Event : Portabello Fort
|
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Living quarters.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
City / Town : Portobello
Site / Event : Portabello Fort
|
 |
The guard house.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
City / Town : Portobello
Site / Event : Portabello Fort
|
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View inside the fort.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
City / Town : Portobello
Site / Event : Portabello Fort
|
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Buzzards.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
|
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Ship passing through the the Panama Canal.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
|
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The Canal was opened in 1914 and is 82km long.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
|
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Bouys mark a channel 152m wide and dedgers keep a depth of 12m clear at all times.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
|
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Huge lights keep the canal open 24 hours a day.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
|
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Ships take nearly 12 hours to pass through the canal.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
|
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Lake Gatun was formed by damming the Chagres River in 1907.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
|
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The lake took seven years to fill the valley and is now part of the Panama Canal.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
|
 |
Green banks of the lake.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
|
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Settlements by the lake.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
|
 |
Buoys mark the route of the canal along the wide lake.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
|
 |
Dramatic landscape.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
|
 |
Misty hills.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
Site / Event : Barro Colorado
|
 |
Barro Colorado is the largest island on Lake Gatun.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
Site / Event : Barro Colorado
|
 |
The island was originally a 165m hill but the rising waters of the lake left an island 4.8km across and 140m high.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
Site / Event : Barro Colorado
|
 |
The island is a research station run by the Smithsonian Institute.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
Site / Event : Barro Colorado
|
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The island has 310 bird species, 65 mammals, 58 reptiles, 32 amphibians and countless invertebrates.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
Site / Event : Barro Colorado
|
 |
The island has 1300 species of plant.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
Site / Event : Barro Colorado
|
 |
Azrec ants' nest.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
Site / Event : Barro Colorado
|
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Helicona.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
Site / Event : Barro Colorado
|
 |
Blister Beetle.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
Site / Event : Barro Colorado
|
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Spider with diaphanous web.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
Site / Event : Barro Colorado
|
 |
Aguti, a type of rodent only found in the Americas.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
Site / Event : Barro Colorado
|
 |
Howler monkey.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
Site / Event : Barro Colorado
|
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Ceboa tree, sacred to the Mayans.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
Site / Event : Barro Colorado
|
 |
Venus cups are fungi.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
Site / Event : Barro Colorado
|
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Bullet ant.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
Site / Event : Barro Colorado
|
 |
Barigon tree with vine.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
Site / Event : Barro Colorado
|
 |
Puff fungus.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
Site / Event : Barro Colorado
|
 |
Square trunked tree.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
Site / Event : Barro Colorado
|
 |
Cycaide moult.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
Site / Event : Barro Colorado
|
 |
The cuipo tree is large and wide.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
Site / Event : Barro Colorado
|
 |
The cuipo tree has rings on its bark.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
Site / Event : Barro Colorado
|
 |
Black and white fungus.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
Site / Event : Barro Colorado
|
 |
The strangler tree takes 100 years to kill its host tree.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
Site / Event : Barro Colorado
|
 |
A tree that has been attacked by weevil.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
Site / Event : Barro Colorado
|
 |
Flat orange fungus.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
Site / Event : Barro Colorado
|
 |
Daddy long legs fungus.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
Site / Event : Barro Colorado
|
 |
The passi beetle was discovered in the 1990s.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
Site / Event : Barro Colorado
|
 |
Toad that resembles a dead leaf.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
Site / Event : Barro Colorado
|
 |
The lesser anteater.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
Site / Event : Barro Colorado
|
 |
Flycatcher on the boat landing dock.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
District : Lake Gatun
Site / Event : Barro Colorado
|
 |
View of the lake from the island.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
|
 |
Canal-side settlements.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
|
 |
The canal is 82km long and is very picturesque.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
Site / Event : Pedro Miguel Locks
|
 |
Pedro Miguel Locks is 1.3km long and is one of three along the Canal.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
Site / Event : Pedro Miguel Locks
|
 |
The locks lower or raise ships 9m in a single step.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
Site / Event : Pedro Miguel Locks
|
 |
An Indian ship descending.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
|
 |
The central region of the Panama Canal.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
|
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The canal passes through tropical rainforest.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
|
 |
Fishing boat.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
|
 |
The canal is one of the busiest waterways in the world.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
Site / Event : Miraflores Locks
|
 |
Miraflres is a two step lock 144km from the Pacific Ocean.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
Site / Event : Miraflores Locks
|
 |
The control building of Miraflores Locks.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
Site / Event : Miraflores Locks
|
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The locks can hold ships 32m wide, 294m long and 12m deep.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
Site / Event : Miraflores Locks
|
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Locomotive used to pilot ships through the lock.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
Site / Event : Miraflores Locks
|
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Each of the two locks raises or lowers a ship by 8.5m.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
Site / Event : Miraflores Locks
|
 |
A Greek ship being pulled into the locks from the Pacific side.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
Site / Event : Miraflores Locks
|
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It takes ten minutes to raise the ship by 8.5m.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
Site / Event : Miraflores Locks
|
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Ship leaving the locks after being raised.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
Site / Event : Miraflores Locks
|
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The empty lock.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
Site / Event : Miraflores Locks
|
 |
The lock full of water.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
Site / Event : Miraflores Locks
|
 |
Peruvian ship entering the lock from the Atlantic side.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
Site / Event : Miraflores Locks
|
 |
Smaller boat.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
City / Town : Panama City
|
 |
The entrance of the Panama Canal near Panama City.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
City / Town : Panama City
|
 |
Ships and docks along the canal.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
City / Town : Panama City
District : Balboa
|
 |
The docks of the Panama Canal are in a suburb of Panama City called Balboa.
|
1995 |
| Panama |
Region : Panama Canal
City / Town : Panama City
District : Balboa
|
 |
The dock area.
|
1995 |
were added from 1 February 2025.