Clear Rules and Fair Compensation: Indio River

2026-03-22 - 14:43

The Río Indio Project is, above all, a national decision. It responds to a verifiable reality: guaranteeing water for more than two million Panamanians and the operational sustainability of the Canal in a context of climate variability and increasing consumption. Based on this, after a year of work and more than 200 collective and individual meetings with almost 70% of the families to be resettled, the Canal and the community have managed to design the rules that clearly define how each impact derived from the physical and economic resettlement will be compensated, which will serve as a basis to analyze each family case separately. Panama Canal Aims to Put it Out to Tender in 2026 as They Advance Designs of the Reservoir on Indio River Drone view of El Limón de Chagres, Colón province. Panama Canal promotes the reservoir on the Indio River: design at 35%, geological studies underway and bidding planned for 2026-2027. The project to build the reservoir on the Indio River is progressing in its technical phase, with the goal of reaching 35% conceptual design completion, which will allow for its future tendering under the design-build modality. In parallel, the Canal Authority is evaluating sites to install the project’s camp, as well as planning access roads. “We are working on that to get the design to 35% completion,” Espino de Marotta pictured below explained.