Escape from the frustrations that accompany city center office locations! With easy access to Corridor Norte and the main arteries of the City, Camino de Cruces Business Center is the best choice for office space anywhere in Panama City. With local amenities like: restaurants, hotels, banks, travel agency, mail & printing service, office supply’s and ample parking, all within walking distance, doing business is easy. The buildings Spanish Colonial Architecture adds a warm comfortable ambiance, fresh breezes and ample open spaces you and your clients are sure to appreciate.

The offices range in size from 22 to 87 m2 and have flexible services you can customize to your needs. For example, you can decorate your office to your personal style, or opt for a pre furnished office space. You can connect to the centralized phone system, or put in your own private line; use the existing wireless Internet service, or drop-in a private cable. A shared conference room, break room and reception area are also available to all offices.

Camino de Cruces Business Center is not a run-of-the-mill office complex, they offer a economical yet customizable boutique office setting that is sure to help your company image by providing easy access and a comfortable yet professional environment to your clients. Location, Style, Comfort – everything you need to make your office a great destination!

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CITY LIFE

Panama City

Panama City is an affordable cosmopolitan location for those who prefer city life. With a skyline reminiscent of Miami, the high rise buildings tower above the ocean or rain forest. Panama is one of the least expensive places in the world to live in a First World City. High class restaurants, first class hotels and fast food outlets, are here for all tastes and expense.

David City

Located in the province of Chiriqui, the City of David is the third largest city in Panama. A tranquil city life, unlike the rush of the metropolitan Panama City. A city that has much potential to grow, especially when the international airport is built.

The weather in David is similar to that of Panama City for people who prefer more tropical climates, but still allows you quick escapes since it is only 45 minutes away from Boquete, 1 hour and 15 minutes from Volcan, and 2 hours away from Boca Chica Beach.

BEACH AREAS

Pacific Beaches – Chame, Gorgona, Coronado, Punta Barco, Rio Mar, and Playa Blanca

Only 45 minutes away from Panama City, we can find Chame, which is the first of many small beach towns in Panama’s Pacific Coast. Stretching out all the way to Juan Hombron, this area is being known as the “Gold Coast” because of the white sand you find in the beaches.

The epicenter of this area is Coronado, where there are several strip malls, with all the modern city commodities, such as a supermarket, banks, restaurants, and construction stores. This area is rapidly growing because it offers you the possibility of living in the beach and yet being less than one hour away from Panama City.

Housing in this area varies from single residency houses, to very modern condos with all the facilities, to private gated communities. There are plans very soon to built an international airport in Rio Hato, which is a landing strip the Americans built in Panama, when they still had the military bases.

Pearl Islands

The Pearl Islands have managed to remain unspoiled, beautiful and virtually untouched over the years. Its water’s abound with wildlife such as: sea turtles, whales, dolphins, a huge array of game fish such as marlin, tuna, wahoo and sailfish to name a few. In the jungles of the Pearl Islands you can find such wildlife as, parrots, toucans, deer, iguanas, monkeys, agouties, and anteaters.

The Pearl Islands, was also home of two seasons of the Reality TV Show “Survivor”.

Bocas del Toro

This isolated region of Panama has only recently been discovered by international travelers. It is for this reason that much of the island chain remains in untouched splendor.

Located on Isla Colon is the province’s capital city, Bocas Del Toro. This was the headquarters for United Fruit Company at the turn of the century and was an important shipping and receiving port.

Over the last few years the entire province has seen the beginnings of a tourist boom, with a number of middle range hotels and restaurants being opened in and around Bocas town. The town now boasts of three different PADI dive shops, many different styles of restaurants, a deep sea fishing outfit, numerous sailboat and catamaran cruises, mountain bike and moped rentals and a lot of fabulous seafood.

Pedasi

Pedasi, a small quite town in the peninsula de Azuero, known as the ‘cradle’ of Panamanian folklore, is the ideal place for a retiree seeking to experience the joys of small town Panama. Women sowing polleras- Panama’s national dress, men working on rustic pottery, the remnants of Panama’s colonial past are quite visible in this small town major historical national monuments are close by such as: The Cabildo House, the Santa Librada Church and the San Atanasio Church.

A small community of foreigners live in this area still, but many have plans to develop the area and a foundation was recently created Pedasi.org to promote positive growth. Pedasi has amazing beaches, with a turtle watching season in September and is a well known for its fishing, surfing and diving. Great place for any water fan.

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In 1902 the Panamanians negotiated with the North Americans to build the Panama Canal. The people of Panama wanted to be free of domination by Colombia. Based on an 1846 treaty between the U.S. and Colombia, the U.S. armed forces were sent to maintain order along the Panama Railroad line. Because of the presence of the U.S. troops; the Colombians withdrew and the Republic of Panama celebrated its independence on November 3, 1903.

In December, 1903 the U.S. Congress ratified a treaty with the new Republic of Panama to build the Panama Canal which created a ten-mile-wide, forty eight mile (77 km) long Canal Zone controlled by the United States for a unlimited period of time. Yet there was still arguing going on in America behind the scenes.

President Roosevelt appointed an Isthmian Canal Commission in May 1904, to build the Canal, mostly following the route of the original railroad tracks. There was much media discussion of the tropics and the French attempts to built the canal.

On the swampy land between Gatun and Gamboa it was necessary to build 167 embankments from 58 to 74 feet high. The canal was created with 3 sets of locks, several artificial channels and 17 artificial lakes. The artificial Lake Gatun was created by damming the Chagres River with an unimaginable 16 million cubic yards of dirt. To start the canal required the relocation of the railway line which cost $9 million. That’s $1 million more than building the entire railroad had cost 65 years earlier. The changing of the railroad route was completed in 1912.

There was still contention in Washington, DC, from a variety of American Congressmen about the choice of Panama for the Canal construction, instead of Nicaragua. There were surely recommendations for President Roosevelt from most of the special interest groups. It is amazing to realize that amid all the excitement “the Panama Canal was built ahead of schedule and below budget.” “If any one person can be credited for this achievement it is George W. Goethals, the project’s chief engineer, 1907−15.”

The first two chief engineers who worked on the Panama Canal were both civilians. They resigned from the huge and daunting project after short tenures.” “President Theodore Roosevelt announced that the next chief would be an Army officer, who, if he walked off the job, would find himself facing a court martial.” “The man selected was Major George W. Goethals of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.” This was a man up to the job.

By the time the canal was completed, an estimated twenty seven thousand workers are said to have died in the combined French and American efforts. The building of the canal was plagued by problems, including disease and landslides, particularly in the area around the Continental Divide at Culebra Cut…but the really astonishing thing is…it was built. The completion of the Canal was celebrated by the successful transit of the SS Ancon as first ship across the Panama Canal.

In his memoirs, An Autobiography (1913), President Theodore Roosevelt admitted that his actions in detaching Panama from Colombia to build the Panama Canal were seen by many critics as improper when he said: “By far the most important action I took in foreign affairs during the time I was President related to the Panama Canal. Here again there was much accusation about my having acted in an ‘unconstitutional’ manner … and at different stages of the affair believers in a do-nothing policy denounced me as having ‘usurped authority’.”

There are still active arguments on both sides of the controversy the about the US role separating Panama from Colombia. Roosevelt sought to rationalize it when he argued that “Colombia had forfeited every claim to consideration” by its actions in Panama. In 1886, Roosevelt claimed the Colombian government “had taken away from Panama the power of self-government”. In the US Congressional debates that ended with the backing of President Jimmy Carter’s desire to return the Canal to the Republic of Panama, the pivotal moment may have been when one Senator exhorted:“Why, it’s ours, we stole it fair and square.”

As there are on the later settlement which resulted in the Torrijos-Carter Treaties in 1977 that set in motion the process of handing the Panama Canal over to the Panamanians for free. Thirty years later it is still a controversial topic within the U.S. However, the treaty led to full Panamanian control effective at noon on December 31, 1999, when control of the canal was handed over to the Panama Canal Authority (ACP).

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To understand the connection of the Vatican’s ‘principles of discovery’ with the behavior of the explorers and conquistadors, we need to begin by examining a papal document issued forty years before Columbus’ historic voyage.

“In 1452, Pope Nicholas V issued the proclamation or ‘bull’ (called) Romanus Pontifex, declaring war against all non-Christians throughout the world, and specifically sanctioning and promoting the conquest, colonization, and exploitation of non-Christian nations and their territories.” So this “bull” was the origin of the war on the world by the Vatican with all their missionaries and military.

To widen your world view of that era; in 1453, Muslims had taken over Constantinople. These warriors would kill anyone who ventured from West to East, by land or by sea. Europeans had been able to trade goods with the Easterners for hundreds of years. But with radical Islam controlling the trade routes and killing those who would not convert to Islam and pay tribute, European’s were motivated to find a new source for supplies they had become used to having.

“In Spain, a lot of the money Queen Isabella used to finance the explorations of Columbus came from the seizure and sale of properties owned by Spanish Jews and Muslims.” “On March 30, 1492, she issued an edict demanding that Jews and Muslims either convert to Catholicism, leave the country, or be executed.” The Queen expected Columbus to create an impressive return on her investment in his voyages. http://www.danielnpaul.com/ChristopherColumbus.html

The forcefulness of the ongoing wars throughout Europe and Asia initiated anti-Islamic fervor in the Christians. The desire for adventure, the hope of conquests and the lust for gold motivated many ship captains’ to dream of finding a way around the spice trade route blockages. But it was European’s genuine need for a reliable supply of herbs and spices for medicine, cooking, and preserving, that combined to create the explosion of energy that launched Columbus’ first voyage as a great triumph of hope.

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