One of the group of islands, four miles out in Panama Bay, which the United States purchased and fortified. It is one of the oldest towns on the Isthmus, at one time the Atlantic terminus of the great trans-Isthmian trade route. Small native town and ruins still exist. Across the bay is the American settlement established on account of the neighboring rock quarry, from which the rock was obtained for the concrete in Gatun Lockws, as well as for the armor of the west breakwater in Colon Harbor. The name of a cape and headland on the south coast of Panama, marking the westerly limit of the Bay of Panama.
Small ships give it a wide berth.
Also the name of a reservoir, and a labor settlement in the Zone. Occupied by the wealthier citizens of Panama, who have summer homes here. St. Lawrence - a ruined fort at the mouth of the Chagres. A town in Chiriqui Province. Bay on south coast of Panama, where Balboa first discovered the Pacific Ocean.