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Miraflores

American  
[mir-uh-flawr-uhs, -flohr-, mee-rah-flaw-res] / ˌmɪr əˈflɔr əs, -ˈfloʊr-, ˌmi rɑˈflɔ rɛs /

plural noun

  1. the locks of the Panama Canal, near the entrance to the Pacific Ocean.


Miraflores British  
/ ˌmɪrəˈflɔːrəs, miraˈflores /

noun

  1. an artificial lake in Panama, in the S Canal Zone of the Panama Canal

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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As perhaps the only U.S. businessman who could shuttle between Mar-a-Lago and the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, few Americans had worked harder and longer than Sargeant to pry open the Venezuela market.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

"We are ready to advance a new, intense work agenda for the wellbeing of...all the people of Europe and of Venezuela," Gil said in a broadcast from the Miraflores presidential palace.

From Barron's • Jan. 12, 2026

They blocked the street from both sides, from Miraflores, from Gaffey.

From Slate • Oct. 27, 2025

Julius is a child of the aristocracy who prefers the company of servants, lackeys and the working-class members of his neighborhood in Miraflores.

From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2023

They are in two steps, or, to use the more technical expression, "two in flight," and they drop the vessel from the Miraflores Lake at 55 feet elevation down to sea-level.

From The Panama Canal A history and description of the enterprise by Mills, J. Saxon

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