An artificial waterway across the Isthmus of Panama connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. A French effort led by Ferdinand de Lesseps in the 1880s, attempting a sea level canal on the Suez model, failed after enormous losses of money and life to tropical disease and engineering miscalculation. The United States took over the project, adopted a lock based design instead of a sea level cut, and completed the canal in 1914. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Facts
Completion Year SignificanceConnects the Atlantic and Pacific, eliminating the need to sail around South America. 1 Connections
Exemplifies
Acquiring the Canal Zone corridor was the project's largest cost and political obstacle
Operated By
Source Wikipedia: Panama Canal
Pioneered By
Led the failed French attempt to build the canal, 1881-1889, before the separate, later, US-completed canal of 1904-1914.
Additional Source Wikipedia: Panama CanalHistory
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1. Wikipedia: Panama Canal
Wikipedia- Overview
Introduction, canal operation
It is now managed and operated by the Panamanian government-owned Panama Canal Authority.
Pioneered By: Ferdinand de Lesseps, History
The French diplomat and entrepreneur Ferdinand de Lesseps and engineer Philippe Bunau-Varilla were the driving forces behind the French attempts to construct the Panama Canal (1881-1889).
In Group: Ship Canals, Lead sentence
The Panama Canal (Spanish: Canal de Panamá) is an artificial 82-kilometer (51-mile) waterway in Panama that connects the Caribbean Sea with the Pacific Ocean.
Operated By: Panama Canal Authority, Infobox: navigation_authority
Panama Canal Authority
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