What is is the Panama canal?

Answer 1

The Panama Canal is a canal that you can cross the atlantic and pacific coasts
The Panama Canal is a man-made canal in Panama which joins the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. It opening in 1914 and is 48 miles long. It is estimated that the building of the canal cost 27,500 lives. A ship sailing from New York to San Francisco saves about 8,000 miles by using the canal.

Answer 2

An initial attempt by France to build a sea-level canal failed, but only after a great amount of excavation was carried out. This was of use to the United States, which completed the present Panama Canal in 1913 and officially opened it in 1914. Along the way, the state of Panama was created through its separation from Colombia in 1903, due to a US backed revolt, so the US could then get control of the Canal project area.

After construction, the canal and the Canal Zone surrounding it were administered by the United States. On 7 September 1977, U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed the Torrijos-Carter Treaty, which set in motion the process of handing over the canal to Panamanian control. The treaty came into force on 1 October 1979 and provided for a twenty-year period during which Panama would have increasing responsibilities for Canal operations, culminating in complete U.S. withdrawal on 31 December 1999.
Since then the canal has been run by the Panama Canal Authority.

Answer 3

It is a canal dug through the narrow area now called Panama linking the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific.