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Location            
Country / Site Latitude Longitude General Description Sponsor/Oper. Agency    
Panama: Coco Solo 9° 22' 79° 54' Started out in Cristobal in the bay, then moved to Coco Solo; then closed and moved to limon bay The Meteorology and Hydrology department    
 
Hardware Information          
DCP Type Gauge Type Available Data GPS Means of Telemetry GOES ID Station ID
N/A Float Water level, water temp, precipitation; all met data No N/A N/A N/A
 
Status            
Installation Date Offline Date Recording Downloaded or Transmitted Archived/ Location Geodetic Reference Comments
1979 1996 No No No Unknown The Cristobal station (see Figure 20-1 in Appendix I) was installed in the early 1900’s and closed in 1979 after the signing of the Panama Canal Treaty.  It was moved to another site named Coco Solo (see Figure 20-2 in Appendix I), instrumented with weather/rain/tide measuring equipment, and operated until mid 1996 when its location was required by the port authority.  The station was then moved to its present location, Limon Bay, which is approximately 0.5km from the old Cristobal station (see Figure 20-3 in Appendix I).  It is mounted out towards a jetty, on the end of a pier.  There is a large breakwater between it and the open ocean.  There is approximately 100 years of archived data and new data are deposited in Hawaii every month.  The station, using radio telemetry to send data back to the receiving station every 15 minutes, measures water level via a float gauge and is serviced at least once a month.  
       
Office The Meteorology and Hydrology department
Contact Michael Hart
Title Hydrologist
Phone 507-276-1722, 1754; 276-1744
E-mail mhart@pancanal.com
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