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Our residence , all made of Sequoia Redwood, concrete foundations and hardwood floors, was built by the US Corp of Engineers
in mid 30愀 exclusively for the Panama Canal Company    employees and their families assigned to the Dredging Division located
in the historic town of Gamboa.

Today, The prestine town of Gamboa is a non commercial communitysurrounded by the Soberania National Park and the Panama Canal protected watershed areas with beautiful   rainforest and exhuberant biodiversity that will exceed the expectations of naturalist enthisiasts and birders.

Our lodge provide home-warmth hospitality, privacy and surrounded by lush vegetation and nature for your enjoyment!

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    Ivan & Gladys Ortiz
House 111
Jadwin Ave, Gamboa
Gamboa Map   click here
Email   ivan@gamboaecotours.com

Reservations      507 6981 4583
Landline       507 314 9436
for calls during working hours only.

4 minutes from Pipeline Road

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	Gamboa is a small town in the Republic of Panama. It was one of a handful of permanent Canal Zone townships, built to house employees of the Panama Canal and their dependents. The name Gamboa is the name of a tree of the quince family. Location Gamboa is located on a sharp bend of the Chagres River at the point which feeds Lake Gatun. Just south of Gamboa, Lake Gatun and the Chagres meet the Gaillard Cut where the Canal cuts through the Continental Divide. Thus, though Gamboa is closer to the Pacific side of Panama, its watershed is on the Atlantic side. A single lane iron and wood bridge crosses the Chagres and is the only road access to Gamboa. This bridge is still in use today. Vehicles waiting to pass over the bridge must wait for a stoplight and enter the bridge, since it is only capable of providing space for one lane of traffic at a time. History Gamboa was built near the site of the former village of Santa Cruz. Three miles further up the Chagres river was the town of Las Cruces, where 19th century travelers and cargo disembarked from river barges to take the overland Las Cruces trail by mule. After the completion of the Panama Railroad in 1855, the railroad ran near the area, but made no stops and no PR maps list any towns in Gamboa's present location. Present-day Gamboa was built in 1911, during Canal construction. It was initially populated by "silver roll" (i.e., Afro-Antilleans and other non-US, non-white) workers and their dependents. These initial settlers, counted at around 700, had previously lived in the construction areas between the former towns of Tabernilla and Gorgona, which were covered by Lake Gatun as Canal construction advanced. No Americans were counted amongst the town's first inhabitants