Panama Canal

**Panama Canal**
	large canal in Panama
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Spoken text audio	Frenchⓘ
Instance of	ship canal;
Part of	Seven Wonders of the Modern World;
Location	Panamá Province; Panamá Oeste Province; Colón Province; Panama;
Connects with	Atlantic Ocean; Pacific Ocean;
Commissioned by	Compagnie universelle du canal interocéanique de Panama;
Has part(s)	Panama Canal locks;
Start point	Atlantic Ocean (9°23′18″N 79°55′10″W);
Destination point	Pacific Ocean (8°54′N 79°32′W);
Heritage designation	Historic Civil Engineering Landmark;
Date of official opening	15 August 1914;
Length	82 km;
Elevation above sea level	26 m;
	9° 07′ 12″ N, 79° 45′ 00″ W
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The Panama Canal is a large canal, 51 miles (82 kilometers) long, that cuts through the isthmus of Panama, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Views

English: SS Kroonland transits the Panama Canal on 2 February 1915. She was the largest passenger ship to that date to transit the canal
English: Bridge of the Americas.

Español: Puente de las Américas
English: Miraflores Locks.

Español: Esclusas de Miraflores
English: A "mule"
English: Watching the clearance
English: approaching Gaillard Cut
English: Gaillard Cut
Español: Lago Gatún
English: Gatun Lake, pictured here in 2000, is having difficulty supplying water for the canal's operation.
Français : Les navires suivent un chenal balisé entre les îles.
English: Gatun Locks.
Español: Esclusas de Gatún
English: Gatun Locks.
Español: Apertura de las esclusas de Gatún
English: The Thor is a drilling and blasting barge used to deepen and widen the main ship route of the Canal.
English: Picture of a ship at the Miraflores Locks of the Panama Canal
Svenska: Panamakanalens huvudkontor ligger i Balboa, Panama.
Lëtzebuergesch: Eng Schleis vum Pananamakanal
English: The 'Puente de las Americas', crossing the Panamá Canal to the North of Panamá City, ssen from the foot of Cerro Ancón.
Deutsch: Sicht vom Cerro Ancón (Panama City) auf den Panamakanal
Panamax ship crossing the Miraflores Locks
Aerial view of the Miraflores (center bottom) and Cocolí (center top) locks
New Agua Clara locks in the Atlantic side
Neopanamax ship crossing the new Agua Clara locks
Control Tower of the new Agua Clara locks
Bridge of the Americas

1904-1914 Construction

English: Pedro Miguel Locks under construction at the Panama Canal
English: The famous Culebra Cut, Panama Canal, 1907
English: Construction of Panama Canal, Isthmian Historical Society, ca1913
Français : Le mur central des écluses de Gatún pendant sa construction en 1910. L'homme debout en bas à droite illustre sa taille.
Français : Les principaux moules à l'avant-plan pendant la construction : à l'arrière, les moules des murs.
Čeština: Práce na Culebra Cut v prosinci 1904
English: Work on lock, Panama Canal, November 1910
failed design

1939-1940 Excavation

English: 1939 Excavation.

2007-2016 Expansion

English: Dredging of Atlantic Navigation Access Channel
English: Breydel Dredge at the south Access Channel in the Pacific entrance
English: Aereal view of the Pacific Construction Site
English: Pacific Construction Site of the Third Set of Locks - Progress as of Feb 2010.
English: Pacific Construction Site of the Third Set of Locks (Cocolí locks) - Progress as of July 2015.

conceptual views

English: Filling and Empting System for the Third Set of Locks
English: Conceptual view of the Third Set of Locks
English: Conceptual view of the Third Set of Locks
English: Conceptual view of the Third Set of Locks
English: Conceptual view of the Third Set of Locks
English: Conceptual view of the Third Set of Locks

Maps

English: Map of the Panama Canal
English: Map of Panama with the Canal
English: Panama Canal, courtesy NASA
English: The Panama Canal Zone
English: This elevation map of the Panama Canal, prepared in 1923, shows the topography of the region through which the canal was cut.
Deutsch: Historische Karte des Panamakanals und des Nicaragua-Kanals
Čeština: Goethalsova mapa Gatunské pr(ehrady
Español: Tráfico por el Canal de Panamá (años 1980 - 2005, texto en francés).
birdseye diagram