Overseas American military cemetery

Corozal American Cemetery

Panama

Location

Corozal American Cemetery and Memorial, Calle Rufina Alfaro, Panama City, Panama

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Visiting

Address: Corozal American Cemetery and Memorial, Calle Rufina Alfaro, Panama City, Panama
Phone: Not yet verified
Visiting hours: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Open to the public daily including host country holidays, except for December 25 and January 1.
Accessibility: Not yet verified — call the cemetery to ask about parking and paths.
Plan your visit: Visiting information from the American Battle Monuments Commission
Official page: abmc.gov

Details are as published by the American Battle Monuments Commission, checked November 11, 2026. Hours change for holidays, weather and ceremonies.

Admission and hours, from the American Battle Monuments Commission

Business Hours

8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Please note, admission to the cemetery ends at 3:45 p.m., 15 minutes before closing time.
Open to the public daily including host country holidays, except for December 25 and January 1.

When open, a staff member is on duty in the visitor building to answer questions and escort relatives to grave and memorial sites.
Admission is FREE and does not require booking in advance.

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Pay your respects

Visitors to veterans’ graves sometimes leave a coin on the headstone to show that someone came. You can leave a symbolic coin here. No money is involved, and nothing about you is published. About the custom, and what each coin is said to mean.

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About this cemetery

Reproduced from the American Battle Monuments Commission’s own description of this cemetery, retrieved November 11, 2026. This is the agency’s text, unedited; it is not independent research by this site.

ABMC assumed responsibility for the care and maintenance of the Corozal American Cemetery in Panama in 1982.

At this 16-acre cemetery are interred more than 5,600 American veterans and others. A small memorial sits atop a knoll overlooking the graves area. The memorial consists of a paved plaza with a 12-foot rectangular granite obelisk flanked by two flagpoles on which fly the U.S. and Panamanian flags. Engraved on the obelisk in English and Spanish is the following inscription:

This memorial has been erected by the
United States of America
in humble tribute to all interred here
who served in its Armed Forces or
contributed to the construction,
operation and maintenance of
the Panama Canal

Buried at the Corozal American Cemetery are American servicemen who served during the Mexican American War, the Civil War, World War I, World War II, and all other major conflicts. Learn more about those Americans buried and memorialized who died during the Civil War and served during the Mexican War, Civil War and Spanish American War.

Read the Commission’s full history of this cemetery

Sources

American Battle Monuments Commission. Cemeteries and memorials. U.S. government work (public domain). Retrieved November 11, 2026. Used for: name, location and contact details, and the hours and description where shown.
American Battle Monuments Commission. Corozal American Cemetery (official page). Retrieved November 11, 2026.

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