Presentacion Canal De panama

¿What is a canal?

Is an artificial waterway constructed to allow the passage of boats or ships . This is made ny people.

Panama.

Panama is a small country in the southern part central America.

The panama Canal.

This conects the atlantic and pacific oceans. It is a convenient way for boats to travel from east to west.

In 1881 france began to build this canal, and the work was very hard and dangerous, for this reason many people died, in fact,  about 20.000 people died, the workers had to dig huge path for boats and build giants wall to hold the water in the canal, but in 1891 france stopped the word because this was too difficult and dangerous.

In 1904 the usa restarts the work and try finish the job that france started, and this time the work was finished, the work took 10 more years of work and the first boat passed through the panama canal in 1914.

The channel function

Provides a direct way to travel between the atlantic and pacific oceans, so using the panama canal, an boat can cross from the atlantic to the pacific in one day. In conclusion the panama canal is very convenient for boats and ships.

Panama Canal, Spanish Canal de Panamá, lock-type canal, owned and administered by the Republic of Panama, that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the narrow Isthmus of Panama. The length of the Panama Canal from shoreline to shoreline is about 40 miles (65 km) and from deep water in the Atlantic (more specifically, the Caribbean Sea) to deep water in the Pacific about 50 miles (82 km). The canal, which was completed in August 1914, is one of the two most-strategic artificial waterways in the world, the other being the Suez Canal. Ships sailing between the east and west coasts of the United States, which otherwise would be obliged to round Cape Horn in South America, shorten their voyage by about 8,000 nautical miles (15,000 km) by using the canal. Savings of up to 3,500 nautical miles (6,500 km) are also made on voyages between one coast of North America and ports on the other side of South America. Ships sailing between Europe and East Asia or Australia can save as much as 2,000 nautical miles (3,700 km) by using the canal.

From its opening in 1914 until 1979, the Panama Canal was controlled solely by the United States, which built it. In 1979, however, control of the canal passed to the Panama Canal Commission, a joint agency of the United States and the Republic of Panama, and complete control passed to Panama at noon on December 31, 1999. Administration of the canal is the responsibility of the Panama Canal Authority (Spanish: Autoridad del Canal de Panamá [ACP]), which answers solely to the government of Panama.

The canal

The Panama Canal lies at a latitude of 9° N, at a point where the North American Continental Divide dips to one of its lowest points. The canal does not, as is generally supposed, cross the isthmus from east to west. It runs due south from its entrance at Colón on the Atlantic side through the Gatún Locks to a point in the widest portion of Gatún Lake; it then turns sharply toward the east and follows a course generally to the southeast until it reaches the Bay of Panama, on the Pacific side. Its terminus near Balboa is some 25 miles (40 km) east of its terminus near Colón. Parallel to the canal are the Panama Canal Railway and the Boyd-Roosevelt Highway.

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