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Chagres, a village of the Republic of
Panama in the
Colón Province. It has a harbour from 10 to I ~ ft. deep, which is difficult to enter. The port was discovered by
Christopher Columbus in
1502, and was opened for traffic with Panama, on the Pacific coast, by way of the
Chagres river, in the 16th century. With the decline of Porto Bello in the 18th century Chagres became the chief Atlantic port of the
Isthmus, and was at the height of its importance during the great rush of goldhunters across the Isthmus to
California in
1849 and the years immediately following.
With the completion of the Panama railway in
1855, however, travel was diverted to Colon, and Chagres soon became a village of miserable huts, with no evidence of its former importance. On a high rock at the mouth of the river stands the castle of Lorenzo, which was destroyed by Sir Henry Morgan when he captured the town in
1671, but was rebuilt soon afterwards by the Spaniards. Chagres was again captured in
1740 by British forces under Admiral Edward Vernon.
In fiction
Chagres features prominently in, a children's book by
Richard Adams.
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