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El Chorrillo, Panama City — Area Guide & Where to Stay
El Chorrillo is a corregimiento of Panama City whose landmark list runs from the Panama Canal Museum to the Iglesia de San José.
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Where to stay in El Chorrillo
Each area has its own feel; here's who each one suits.
Collections settle what El Chorrillo is for. Eight listed sights hang on El Chorrillo's name, the Panama Canal Museum, the Panama History Museum, the Panama Museum of Contemporary Art and the Iglesia de San José among them, which makes the corregimiento a walking base rather than a place to drive between stops. Panama City supplies the hotels. Anyone booking for the Goethals Monument or the Reina Torres de Araúz Anthropological Museum is choosing a Panamá District address inside the capital that fronts the Pacific coast near the Panama Canal entrance.
Few places to stay in El Chorrillo — most visitors book in Panama City nearby.
About El Chorrillo
What are the main landmarks in El Chorrillo?
The Panama Canal Museum anchors the list. Beside it the register sets the Panama History Museum, the Panama Museum of Contemporary Art, the Reina Torres de Araúz Anthropological Museum, the Endara Museum and the Museum of Colonial Religious Art, which is an unusual weight of collection for one corregimiento. The Goethals Monument stands apart from the museums.
Iglesia de San José completes what El Chorrillo carries.
What is the history of El Chorrillo?
The record dates nothing here. El Chorrillo enters it as a corregimiento of Panamá District, within Panamá Province, and what stands in for its own chronology is the run of institutions that keep Panama's: the Panama Canal Museum, the Panama History Museum, and the Museum of Colonial Religious Art. Iglesia de San José is the exception.
Only the Goethals Monument shares that status with it, since everything else on El Chorrillo's list is a collection.
Where is El Chorrillo?
El Chorrillo occupies a corner of Panamá District within Panama City, the capital that fronts the Pacific coast near the entrance of the Panama Canal.
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What is the best area to stay in El Chorrillo?
Panama City: the capital's hotel stock beside the Panama Canal entrance.
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Updated September 2026