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Amador Causeway Vacation Guide

Amador Causeway (Calzada de Amador) is a wonderful part of Panama City.

The Panama Canal Authority has documented that there were over a million cubic yards of rock excavated from the Culebra or Gaillard Cut of the Panama Canal which were used to build Amador Causeway. When you’re looking at a map, it is as though the eastern side of the Canal, or the Canal’s left arm is extended to make Amador Causeway. The Causeway was designed as a huge breakwater to protect the entrance to the Canal and prevent sedimentation.


The Amador Causeway connects four small islands, Noas, Culebra, Perico and Flamenco; with the mainland near the foot of the Bridge of the Americas in the Panama Canal. All four of the islands were part of Fort Grant, which was established in 1913 as a fortification for the Panamanians and Americans to protect Panama Canal access during the two world wars. Many of the fortifications and massive underground bomb proof structures still exist. The most distant of the islands – Isla Flamenco, was a US Military Command Post in 1942 and on Isla Perico – part of the Fuerte Amador Shopping Center is built over an old underground military sanctuary.

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