Panama Metro
rapid transit system in Panama City, Panama
The Panama Metro (Spanish: Metro de Panamá) is a rapid transit system serving Panama City, Panama. Developed to ease traffic congestion between the city and the San Miguelito District and to provide an alternative to road transport, the metro supplements the MiBus network and operates daily throughout the year.
Line 1 opened on April 6, 2014 and spans 18.1 kilometres (11.2 mi) with 15 stations. Line 2 followed in 2019, temporarily opening for World Youth Day in late January and later entering regular service on April 25 of that year. It extends 24 kilometres (15 mi) with 18 stations, including a branch to Tocumen International Airport that opened in 2023. The San Miguelito station serves as the interchange between the two lines.
The metro is part of a broader National Master Plan to improve transportation around Panama City, which includes the construction of two additional rapid transit lines, two monorail lines, three tram lines, and an aerial lift line.
History
Line 1
Development
The government of Panama invited tenders for a contract to build the metro system. The governments of Brazil and Taiwan offered to invest on the project. After an exhaustive inspection of all proposals for the construction of the railway system, the Línea Uno consortium, which includes the Spanish Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (FCC), won the contract.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Panama Metro” as rapid transit system in Panama City, Panama. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as rapid transit system in Panama City, Panama. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3295198. Authority coordinates are 8.983, -79.517. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2014, 2019 and 2023.
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This entry incorporates text from “Panama Metro” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.