Ancón Explained

Ancón may refer to:

Places

Antiquity

• Ancon (Picenum), town of ancient Picenum, now in Italy
• Ancon (Pontus), town of ancient Pontus, now in Turkey

Ecuador

• Ancón, Ecuador, a city in Guayas, Ecuador

Panama

• Ancón, Panama, a city in central Panama
• Ancon Hill, a hill overlooking Panama City

Peru

• Ancon (archaeological site)
• Ancón District, a district of Peru

Ships

• , a sidewheel paddle steamer that was wrecked in Alaska in 1889
• Ancon (1894), a steel-hulled three-masted barque that was scrapped in 1921
• , the first steamship officially to transit the Panama Canal in 1914
• , a 1939 steamship that was a AGC-4 troopship

Other

• Treaty of Ancón, signed by Peru and Chile on 20 October 1883
• ANCON, a conservation group in Panama
• Ancon, a UK company that makes steel products for the construction industry
• Ancon sheep, an extinct breed of sheep