City overview
Panama packs two oceans, a rainforest and one of the world's great engineering sites into a country you can cross in a day, and it does it with the largest and best-served kosher infrastructure in Central America. Panama City's skyline sits beside a UNESCO-listed colonial quarter and the locks of the Panama Canal, while the highlands of Boquete and the Caribbean islands of Bocas del Toro are a short flight away. The Jewish community numbers roughly fifteen thousand, mostly Sephardi families of Syrian and Lebanese descent, concentrated in Punta Paitilla, Punta Pacífica and Bella Vista. Kosher Panamá, the certification body of the Shevet Ahim congregation, supervises well over ninety establishments countrywide, and an eruv covers the main Jewish neighbourhoods.
Agua Clara Visitor Center - Panama Canal Expansion
Panama City · Non-resident adults $10.00; children 6-12 $5.00; under 6 free
See the vast expanded locks and Gatun Lake from the Caribbean side of the canal.
Time needed
About 3 hours
Hours
Open daily 8:00 AM–4:00 PM; tickets sold until 3:30 PM
Tips
A panoramic deck over the expanded locks, a 12-minute film, a 1 km country trail and a 0.5 km ecological trail. The New Gatun Locks view deck is 16 km further on.
Address
Calle Golf, ColonNeighborhood
Colon
Activity providers
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