Colon and Fort San-Lorenzo - one Ocean to Another by Train
Travel the 80 km that separate the Atlantic Ocean from the Pacific Ocean in the legendary train dating from 1855.
This route is done all along the Panama Canal by the country's only railway. The Panama Canal Railway Company.
You will discover the former colonial military fort of San-Lorenzo, which is located on a promontory at the mouth of the Chagres River on the Caribbean coast of Panama.
In 1671, the privateer Henry Morgan's fleet attacked him on their way to plunder Panama City.
First called Aspinwall, in 1890, it became the city known today - Colon, at the entrance to the Panama Canal, on the north side.
Since the Spanish first landed in the Isthmus of Panama in 1501, Panama has been a natural transit route for goods and people trying to cross from coast to coast.