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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
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English: SS Kroonland transits the Panama Canal on 2 February 1915. She was the largest passenger ship to that date to transit the canal
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English: Bridge of the Americas.Español: Puente de las Américas
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English: Miraflores Locks.Español: Esclusas de Miraflores
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English: A "mule"
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English: Watching the clearance
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English: approaching Gaillard Cut
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English: Gaillard Cut
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Español: Lago GatúnEnglish: 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.
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English: Gatun Locks.Español: Esclusas de Gatún
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English: Gatun Locks.Español: Apertura de las esclusas de Gatún
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English: Picture of a ship at the Miraflores Locks of the Panama Canal
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Svenska: Panamakanalens huvudkontor ligger i Balboa, Panama.
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Lëtzebuergesch: Eng Schleis vum Pananamakanal
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English: The 'Puente de las Americas', crossing the Panamá Canal to the North of Panamá City, ssen from the foot of Cerro Ancón.
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Deutsch: Sicht vom Cerro Ancón (Panama City) auf den Panamakanal
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Panamax ship crossing the Miraflores Locks
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Aerial view of the Miraflores (center bottom) and Cocolí (center top) locks
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New Agua Clara locks in the Atlantic side
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Neopanamax ship crossing the new Agua Clara locks
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Control Tower of the new Agua Clara locks
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Bridge of the Americas
1904-1914 Construction
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English: Pedro Miguel Locks under construction at the Panama Canal
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English: The famous Culebra Cut, Panama Canal, 1907
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English: Construction of Panama Canal, Isthmian Historical Society, ca1913
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Français : Le mur central des écluses de Gatún pendant sa construction en 1910. L'homme debout en bas à droite illustre sa taille.
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Français : Les principaux moules à l'avant-plan pendant la construction : à l'arrière, les moules des murs.
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Čeština: Práce na Culebra Cut v prosinci 1904
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English: Work on lock, Panama Canal, November 1910
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failed design
1939-1940 Excavation
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English: 1939 Excavation.
2007-2016 Expansion
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English: Dredging of Atlantic Navigation Access Channel
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English: Breydel Dredge at the south Access Channel in the Pacific entrance
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English: Aereal view of the Pacific Construction Site
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English: Pacific Construction Site of the Third Set of Locks - Progress as of Feb 2010.
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English: Pacific Construction Site of the Third Set of Locks (Cocolí locks) - Progress as of July 2015.
conceptual views
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English: Filling and Empting System for the Third Set of Locks
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English: Conceptual view of the Third Set of Locks
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English: Conceptual view of the Third Set of Locks
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English: Conceptual view of the Third Set of Locks
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English: Conceptual view of the Third Set of Locks
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English: Conceptual view of the Third Set of Locks
Maps
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English: Map of the Panama Canal
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English: Map of Panama with the Canal
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English: Panama Canal, courtesy NASA
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English: The Panama Canal Zone
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English: This elevation map of the Panama Canal, prepared in 1923, shows the topography of the region through which the canal was cut.
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Deutsch: Historische Karte des Panamakanals und des Nicaragua-Kanals
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Čeština: Goethalsova mapa Gatunské pr(ehrady
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Español: Tráfico por el Canal de Panamá (años 1980 - 2005, texto en francés).
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birdseye diagram