Historic sites

Panama Canal and Miraflores Locks

Panama Panamá Panama City

Panama Canal and Miraflores Locks
Photo: User:Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific, opened in 1914. At the Miraflores Locks visitor centre near Panama City, watch huge ships rise and fall in the locks, with a museum and film.


Partial canal transit boat trips run on some days. The Agua Clara centre shows the newer, larger locks.

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