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Colon (ASPINWALL the former)

or ASPINWALL (the former the official name), a free port of Panama, on Manzanillo Island, on the N. side of the Isthmus of Panama, at the Atlantic extremity of the interoceanic railway, and near that of the Panama canal. It had an important transit trade before the canal was begun, and since then_the place has been entirely transformed, a new town with wide and regular streets having been built on a tract of land re- COLONEL claimed by the canal company. There is extensive harbor accommodation. The completion of the Panama canal made Colon an important commercial port. The United States Government has introduced modern systems of sanitation and sewers, which have made the city, formerly very unhealthful, one healthiest places in the tropics. Pop. about 20,000. See PANAMA. of the