Is it legal to collect at Panama City, Panama: Panama Viejo ruins on the tidal flats?

Prohibited, look only. Panama Ley 14/1982 and Ley 91/1976: the site is a national monument run by the Patronato Panama Viejo and a UNESCO World Heritage site; all archaeological objects are state property and removal is a crime, ticketed entry

What can you find at Panama City, Panama: Panama Viejo ruins on the tidal flats?

olive jar and majolica sherds, criolla ware, pre-Columbian pottery, roof tile (all protected, look only)

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Panama Viejo ruins on the tidal flats

Tidal mudflat Documented siteProhibited, look only

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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Sea pottery

Also reported: criolla ware, roof tile (all protected, look only).

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

First European city on the Pacific (1519), sacked and abandoned after Henry Morgan in 1671; ruins sit on a tidal mudflat where colonial and pre-Columbian pottery erodes.

CORA research dataset (Buxeda i Garrigos et al.) catalogues criolla ware, transport jars, glazed coarse wares and pre-Columbian ceramics excavated at Casas Terrin, the Concepcion convent, Parque Morelos and Plaza Mayor inside the site; AFAR confirms UNESCO statusView source →