Part of the Army sector - Fort Amador (Located at the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal near Balboa)

• 17 buildings (which housed the Army headquarters staff -- primarily in Bldg.1 -- and staff/units) and eight family housing units
• Also the islands of Naos, Culebra, Perico, and Flamenco (previously known also as Fort Grant)

_{Part of the Army sector of Fort Amador transferred to Panama October 1, 1979. Naos, Perico, and Flamenco Islands and Amador causeway in background. (U.S. Army photo, 1978)}

Past/current/planned use by Panama

October 1979-December 1989:

• Fifth Rifle Company, the Panama Defense Forces' (PDF)Military Police unit established in mid 1979 (to work with the U.S. Forces Military Police as joint patrols in Military Areas of Coordination) occupied all the barracks buildings.
• COGECODESE (PDF side of the Combined Board and Joint Committee -- both bi-national bodies established by the Panama Canal Treaty and its associated documents) occupied Building 1.
• The PDF's UESAT (Special Operations Forces) unit was stationed on Flamenco Island.

1990-1997:

Buildings 8 and 9 were used by the Presidential Institutional Protection Service (SPI)

1995-1998:

• Panamanian Foreign Ministry moved to Building 1 from Plaza Porras in downtown Panama City (as a temporary location until renovation of the historic Bolivar building in Casco Viejo (Old Panama section of the city). The Foreign Ministry then moved to Quarry Heights in 1998.
• Other Panamanian buildings were vacant until final planning completed for converting Fort Amador into a major tourist complex.

Construction began in 1998 to demolish buildings at Fort Amador for construction of the Amador Tourist Complex (see Panama's ARI).