EPSG:5467 Panama-Colon 1911
Geographic system in latitude and longitude, in use: Panama - onshore. Datum, ellipsoid and transformation to WGS 84 below.
EPSG publishes no simple transformation to WGS 84 for this datum: conversion works on the ellipsoid alone and can be off by tens of metres.
| Code | EPSG:5467 |
|---|---|
| Name | Panama-Colon 1911 |
| Type | Geographic system |
| Area of use | Panama - onshore |
| Bounds | W -83,04° · S 7,15° · E -77,19° · N 9,68° |
| Countries | Panama |
| Datum | Panama-Colon 1911 |
| Ellipsoid | Clarke 1866 a = 6378206.4 m · 1/f = 294.978698214 |
| Unit | degree (Lat north, Lon east) |
| Transformation to WGS 84 | No simple transformation published (ellipsoid alone) |
| Scope | Geodesy, topographic mapping. |
proj4 definition
+proj=longlat +ellps=clrk66 +no_defsPaste it into QGIS, proj4js, PostGIS (spatial_ref_sys) or GDAL. +towgs84 carries the EPSG transformation to WGS 84; the official code stays EPSG:5467.
WKT (ESRI format, the .prj content)
GEOGCS["GCS_Panama-Colon_1911",DATUM["D_Panama-Colon-1911",SPHEROID["Clarke_1866",6378206.4,294.978698213898]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0.0],UNIT["Degree",0.0174532925199433]]Other systems — Panama
Source: EPSG registry v11.022 (IOGP), through the PROJ database. Always check a code on epsg.org before contractual work.