Petaquilla is a hill located in the district of Donoso,

Colón Province Colón () is a province of Panama. The capital is the city of Colón. It covers an area of 4,575.5 km2, and the population (in 2023) is 281,956. Overview This province has traditionally been focused on commerce (through the Colón Free Zone, ...

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. Petaquilla is classified as:

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(hill of a height less than 300 m), Petaquilla is bordered on the north by the Caribbean, south to

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and Coclé provinces, east with the

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and west by the

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. Its geographical coordinates are 8° 59' 0" North, -80° 45' 0" West. Since the Spanish colonial times Cerro Petaquilla became the established route by force for

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explorers and included in stories and reviews by historians, it was an area where

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and

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were established to claim the gold that was melded for the

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. The existence of

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in the area around Cerro Petaquilla motivated the Spanish Crown and its representatives to the development of rudimentary mining procedures in the 1600s. Today, there are modern mining operations in the area such as Petaquilla's Molejon project''Petaquilla claims court victory over Inmet in Panama.''
The Globe and Mail, 2013-02-13. Retrieved 2021-01-27. and the

Cobre mine, Panama Cobre Panamá is an open-pit copper mine in Panama, located west of Panama City and from the Caribbean Sea coast, in the district of Donoso, in the western part of the province of Colón. The mine consists of four zones totalling 13,600 ha (3 ...

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