{{Infobox settlement |name = Nuevo Chagres |native_name = |settlement_type = Corregimiento |image_skyline = |image_caption = |image_alt = |pushpin_map = Panama |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = {{flag|Panama}} |subdivision_type1 = Province |subdivision_name1 = Colón |subdivision_type2 = District |subdivision_name2 = Chagres |leader_title = |leader_name = |established_title = Established |established_date = |area_land_km2 = 5.9 |area_footnotes = <ref name=inec>[http://www.contraloria.gob.pa/inec/archivos/P3601Cuadro11.xls "Cuadro 11 (Superficie, población y densidad de población en la República...)" [Table 11 (Area, population, and population density in the Republic...)<nowiki>] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030354/http://www.contraloria.gob.pa/inec/archivos/P3601Cuadro11.xls |date=March 4, 2016 }}</nowiki>] (.xls). In {{cite web|title=Resultados Finales Básicos |trans-title=Basic Final Results |url=https://www.contraloria.gob.pa/inec/publicaciones/Publicaciones.aspx?ID_SUBCATEGORIA=59&ID_PUBLICACION=360&ID_IDIOMA=1&ID_CATEGORIA=13 |publisher=National Institute of Statistics and Census of Panama |access-date=May 26, 2015 |language=Spanish |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150710070123/http://www.contraloria.gob.pa/inec/Publicaciones/Publicaciones.aspx?ID_SUBCATEGORIA=59&ID_PUBLICACION=360&ID_IDIOMA=1&ID_CATEGORIA=13 |archivedate=July 10, 2015 }}</ref> |population_as_of = 2010 |population_total = 499 |population_footnotes = <ref name=inec/> |population_density_km2 = 85.1 |population_note = Population density calculated based on land area. |timezone1 = EST |utc_offset1 = −5 |coordinates = {{coord|9|14|10|N|80|05|10|W|region:PA|display=inline,title}} |elevation_m = |area_code = |website = }}
'''Nuevo Chagres''' ({{IPA|es|ˈnweβo ˈtʃaɣɾes}}, {{langx|en|New Chagres}}) is a seaside town and ''corregimiento'' in the Colón Province of Panama, and the capital of the Chagres District. It had a population of 499 as of 2010. Its population as of 1990 was 327; its population as of 2000 was 419.<ref name=inec/>
The town is named after the historical settlement of Chagres, which lay about {{convert|8.2|mi}} to the northwest, at the mouth of the Chagres River. Although Chagres fell outside the original boundary of the Panama Canal Zone, that boundary was expanded in 1916 to include the Chagres River's mouth. The town of Chagres—with its 96 houses and 400 to 500 inhabitants—was then "depopulated," and its former residents were relocated to Nuevo Chagres.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sanlorenzo.org.pa/docs/IITF_25r_03_30_04_ingles.pdf |title=The San Lorenzo Protected Area: A Summary of Cultural and Natural Resources |author=Peter L. Weaver and Gerald P. Bauer |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry |access-date=1 November 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070710205841/http://www.sanlorenzo.org.pa/docs/IITF_25r_03_30_04_ingles.pdf |archivedate=July 10, 2007 }}</ref>
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Category:Corregimientos of Colón Province Category:Populated places in Colón Province Category:1916 establishments in Panama Category:Populated places established in 1916
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