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In Canal Zone times it was an American bedroom community for the nearby Miraflores Locks, Port of Balboa and other Zonian-staffed operations. There were some wooden multi-family dwellings, a section of well built duplexes and some more substantial brick single-family homes that Panama acquired in the Carter-Torrijos Treaties. Odds are that the wooden houses will make way for port expansion within a few years. The more middle class part of Diabl will probably stay that way. The photo above was taken from the side of what used to be a major community institution, the now mostly vacant Diablo Clubhouse. The foundations being laid at the bottom of that photo are most probably for a business that will provide some of the goods or services that used to be available to Zonians at the clubhouse.

Below we see the contemporary Panamanian middle class Diablo, where people can live a short walk from where they keep their boats.

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