Colon
Description
The City of Colón is founded on the Caribbean coast of Panama, at the Atlantic entrance of the Panama Canal. It is a port city with over 200,000 residents still the second largest city in Panama.
The City of Colón was founded in 1850 when they built the Panama railway tracks that connected the Atlantic coast to the Pacific, His name was to be Aspinwall in honor of William Henry Aspinwall. This resulted in savings to gold seekers heading to California and Alaska, a week of walking through the Panamanian jungle. Today, Colón is a popular stop for cruise ships are directed to the Panama Canal.
In this City is the Colon Free Zone which is the most important free zone in the western world and the second largest center for imports and redistribution of the world. Products of any type, including raw materials and machinery can be imported, stored, modified distributed, processed, assembled, repackaged and then re-exported without being subject to customs taxes.
Portobelo:
It is one of the most interesting places near Colón. Portobelo is an old Spanish fort located 32 miles north of Colón. This Spanish colonial fort that was once vital succumbed to the attacks of the pirate Henry Morgan and Francis Drake between the besieged so many pirates in the sixteenth century and later became a small fishing village Visitors today can visit the ruins the fort. Many of the original buildings still remain standing, including the original building of Customs, the Church of San Felipe, and the giant iron cannons.
