*** Welcome to piglix ***

Ciudad del Saber, Panama


Coordinates: 8°59′56″N 79°34′59″W / 8.999°N 79.583°W / 8.999; -79.583

Panama's Ciudad del Saber (Spanish for City of Knowledge) is a government-sponsored cluster of academic organizations, technology companies and non-governmental organizations, managed by the foundation of the same name. It is located just across the Miraflores locks, in what used to be United States Army South headquarters, Fort Clayton.

Ciudad del Saber was born from the idea of converting some military areas located in the former Panama Canal Zone into a center for knowledge exchange. The project was supported by former presidents Nicolás Ardito Barletta and Ernesto Pérez Balladares, and was presented by the later one at the Summit of the Americas held in Miami, Florida in December 1994. The non-profit foundation that manages the park today was created in 1995. The current facilities at Fort Clayton were officially handed over to the foundation by president Mireya Moscoso in November 1999, during the final stage of the implementation of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties.


...
Wikipedia

...