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What led the Panama canal?

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8y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

The building of the Panama Canal was to create a shorter passage for shipping between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, rather than the longer, more hazardous route round Cape Horn, the southern tip of South America.

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