Is it legal to collect at Casco Viejo, Panama City: walled peninsula foreshore?

Restricted. UNESCO World Heritage district under Panama's heritage law: no digging, detecting or removal anywhere including the foreshore; this is a walk-the-walls, eyes-only site

What can you find at Casco Viejo, Panama City: walled peninsula foreshore?

eyes-only: colonial walls and Plaza Francia, canal-era debris, pottery and glass weathering from fill visible in the tidal mud

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Casco Viejo, Panama City

Walled peninsula foreshore

Tidal foreshore Documented siteRestricted

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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Sea pottery

Also reported: eyes-only: colonial walls and Plaza Francia, canal-era debris.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

Panama's post-1671 walled replacement city on a Pacific peninsula, layered with Spanish colonial, French canal-era and early American material along its seawalls

Casco Viejo's history and UNESCO World Heritage protection are institutionally documented; foreshore material below the seawalls is visible at low tide but no finds recovery is documented or lawful