Panama Canal
The Panama Canal is an artificial 82-kilometer waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean, cutting across the Isthmus of Panama, and is a conduit... Wikipedia
- Length: 82 km (50.95 mi)
- Maximum boat length: 366 m
- Maximum boat beam: 49 m
- Locks: 3 locks up, 3 down per transit, all three lanes, (3 lanes of locks)
- Status: Opened in 1914, expansion opened 26 June 2016
- Principal engineer: Ferdinand de Lesseps (1881-1889), John Findley Wallace (1904–1905), John Frank Stevens (1905–1907), George Washington Goethals (1907–1914)
- Start point: Atlantic Ocean
- End point: Pacific Ocean
- Connects to: Pacific Ocean from Atlantic Ocean and vice versa
- Data source: DuckDuckGo
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