ANCON

city, central Panama, just northeast of Balboa city. It is a residential and medical centre. As Balboa and Panama City have grown, Ancn has become virtually a suburb of the latter. It is noted for the Gorgas Hospital for tropical diseases, named after Colonel William Crawford Gorgas, a U.S. Army surgeon who eradicated yellow fever from the Canal Zone. Ancn is also the site of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute for the research and promotion of tropical biology and is on the Transisthmian Railway. Pop. (1983 est.) 28,113.