Panama - Flat Arch, Ruins Santo Domingo Church, Panama City (R-86095)

Postcard Panama - Flat Arch, Ruins Santo Domingo Church, Panama City 

 

Panama - Gatun Locks, Culebra cut, Panama Canal (FF - 501)

Postcard Panama - Gatun Locks, Culebra cut, Panama Canal

 

Panama - M.V. Oriana passing through Gaillard Cut of the Panama Canal (C25397)

Postcard Panama - M.V. Oriana passing through Gaillard Cut of the Panama Canal

 

Panama - Panama mappostcard

Panama mappostcard

Panama - Indian woman from San Blas

Postcard Indian woman from San Blas.

Typical Indian woman from the picturesque Island of San Blas, in her colorful dress and adornments.

Panama - Hotel El Panama Hilton

Postcard Entrance to Hotel El Panama Hilton, Panama. 

Panama - The Golden Altar

Postcard The Golden Altar.

The Golden Altar is actually made of carved wood that was overlaid with gold flake. The Altar de Oro was originally inside a church in Panama La Vieja. Legend has it that when the English pirate Henry Morgan attacked the city, the Jesuit priests in the Order of St. Augustine painted the Golden Altar black to hide the gold from the pirates. Morgan sacked and burned Panama La Vieja and the Order of St. Augustine moved the altar to the new church in Casco Viejo, its present day location. 

Panama - Statue Vasco Núñez de Balboa

Postcard Vasco Núñez de Balboa

Vasco Núñez de Balboa (c. 1475 – around January 12–21, 1519) was a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador. He is best known for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, becoming the first European to lead an expedition to have seen or reached the Pacific from the New World.

He traveled to the New World in 1500 and, after some exploration, settled on the island of Hispaniola. He founded the settlement of Santa María la Antigua del Darién in present-day Panama in 1510.

Panama - Panama City seen from Amador

Postcard Panama City seen from Amador. 

Panama - Crossroads of the World Panama Canal (multiview)

Postcard Crossroads of the World, Panama Canal.

Picture 1. The Bridge of the Americas (Spanish: Puente de las Américas; originally known as the Thatcher Ferry Bridge) is a road bridge in Panama, which spans the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal. Designed by Sverdrup & Parcel, it was completed in 1962 at a cost of US$ 20 million, connecting the north and south American land masses.

Picture 2. Miraflores is the name of one of the three locks that form part of the Panama Canal, and the name of the small lake that separates these locks from the Pedro Miguel Locks upstream. In the Miraflores locks, vessels are lifted (or lowered) 54 feet (16.5 m) in two stages, allowing them to transit to or from the Pacific Ocean port of Balboa in Panama City. Ships cross below the Bridge of the Americas, which connects North and South America.

Panama - Puente Del Mundo/Corazon Del Universo

Postcard Puente Del Mundo/Corazon Del Universo, Panama

Panama - Isla San Blas sunset

Postcard Sunset Isla San Blas.

The San Blas Islands of Panama is an archipelago comprising approximately 365 islands and cays, of which only 49 are inhabited. They lie off the north coast of the Isthmus of Panama, east of the Panama Canal.

Panama - Avenida Federico Boyd, Panamá City

Postcard Avenida Federico Boyd, Panamá City