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Chagres

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Cha·gres  (chägrs)
A river rising in central Panama, flowing southwest to Gatún Lake (formed by a dam on the river), then draining northwest to the Caribbean Sea.

Chagres (Spanish) [ˈtʃaγres]
n
(Placename) a river in Panama, flowing southwest through Gatún Lake, then northwest to the Caribbean Sea


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2] isle formed when the Chagres River was dammed in 1913 to provide waters for the Panama Canal.
The acquisition includes the Los Bronces and El Soldado mines and the Chagres smelter.
Panama has already created two national parks around the Rio Chagres river that feeds the canal, and conservationists would like to see much more of the zone protected as parkland.
 
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