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The Panama Canal (Spanish: Canal de Panamá) is an artificial 82-kilometer (51-mile) waterway in Panama that connects the Caribbean Sea with the Pacific Ocean. It cuts across the narrowest point of the Isthmus of Panama , and is a conduit for maritime trade between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Why is it so important? Roughly 5% of all global trade flows through the canal’s 50-mile (80-kilometer) stretch each year, with the largest chunk being cargo heading between the East Coast of ...
The Panama Canal Zone (Spanish: Zona del Canal de Panamá), also simply known as the Canal Zone, was a concession of the United States located in the Isthmus of Panama that existed from 1903 to 1979. It consisted of the Panama Canal and an area generally extending five miles (8 km) on each side of the centerline, but excluding Panama City and ...
The Panama Canal cost the United States about $375 million, including $10 million paid to Panama and $40 million paid to the French company. Although it was the most expensive construction project in US history to that time, it cost about $23 million less than the 1907 estimate despite landslides and an increase in the canal's width.
A ship is guided through the Panama Canal's Miraflores locks near Panama City on April 24, 2023. (Luis Acosta/AFP/Getty Images)
During the 20th century, U.S.-Panama tensions worsened and there were growing protests against U.S. control of the canal, notably after the Suez Canal crisis in 1956, when British and French plans ...
Miraflores is the name of one of the three locks that form part of the Panama Canal, and the name of the small lake that separates these locks from the Pedro Miguel Locks upstream. In the Miraflores locks, vessels are lifted (or lowered) 54 feet (16.5 m) in two stages, allowing them to transit to or from the Pacific Ocean port of Balboa in ...
Part of his justification for American ownership of the Panama Canal is that the U.S. “spent more money than ever spent on a project before and lost 38,000 lives” to build it.