Panama canal story board Katie Carroll
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- The Panama Canal is a man-made waterway that spans the Isthmus of Panama and connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Panama owns and administers the island, which is 40 kilometers long from shore to shore. Ships can travel in either direction when crossing the channel.
- Building dams on the Chagres River to create Gatun Lake and Lake Madden, digging the Gaillard Cut from the river between the two lakes and over the Continental Divide, and building locks between the Atlantic Ocean and Gatun Lake to lift boats to the lake were all part of the Panama Canal's construction.
- In 1881, a French firm managed by Ferdinand, Viscount de Lesseps, began construction on a canal, but by 1889, it had collapsed. The Hay–Bunau–Varilla Treaty, negotiated by President Theodore Roosevelt, gave the United States authority of the Canal Zone.
- The Panama Canal was completed in 1914, with work beginning in 1904 under US control. Thousands of people worked on the project, the majority of whom were laborers from Barbados, Martinique, and Guadeloupe.
- The notion of building a waterway across Panama's isthmus to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans dates back to the 1500s, when King Charles I of Spain commissioned his regional governor to study a route via the Chagres River.
- In August 1909, concrete was poured at Gatn to begin the construction of the locks. The locks were built in pairs, each chamber measuring 110 feet wide by 1,000 feet long, with culverts that used gravity to raise and drop water levels.
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