Portobelo and San Lorenzo Forts, Panama

PORTOBELO AND SAN LORENZO FORTS (Panama)

In the 17th and 18th century, Spain built forts along Panama's Caribbean coast to protect the country's interests. Two of these, Portobelo and San Lorenzo, are located about 50 miles apart, and were used to store loot plundered from Incan mines, carried by ship from Peru to Panama's Pacific coast, and carried across the Isthmus by donkey for shipping on to Spain.

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