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The Panama Canal
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The canal is joining the atlantic and pacific oceans. It runs from
Cristobal on lemon bay, a part of the Caribbean sea, to Balboa, on the Gulf of
Panama. The canal is slightly more than 64 km long, not including the dredged
approach channels at either end. The minimum depth is 12.5 m, and the mi ....
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....o interest groups in the United States and Europe in
building a canal, and it became a subject of perennial debate in the congress
of the United States. The discovery of gold in California in 1848 and the rush
of would-be miners started the United States interest in digging the canal.
Various surveys made between 1850 and 1875 indicated that only two routes were
practical, the one across Panama and that across Nicargua. In 1876 an
international company was organized. Two years later it obtain.... |
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