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# Panama Canal
Panama City · Miraflores Locks · Panama

A great feat of engineering between the Atlantic and Pacific. The marker indicates the Miraflores Locks, a reference point for watching the canal in operation.

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Reference localityPanama City · Miraflores Locks

Country / geographic scopePanama

Place typeMonuments

Point coordinates8.99729, -79.59119

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The point is for orientation; it does not represent an entrance or the boundary of the place. For extensive areas, the named locality is a reference.

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