Because it was the thinest place to cut across being only sixty miles long.
The Panama was chosen to build the canal at because it would of been more money and more time to travel around the South Americas but they built the canal so it would be a shorter travel...
It had the thinnest strip of land available in that area. It would take less time to build the canal.
They chose Panama for the building of the canal because of geography. Panama is in the right place and had the right features, Lakes and rivers to fill the locks in the canal with.
Panama Canal
I did not begin building the panama canal, and I did not finish it either.
Theodore Roosevelt worked with Colombia for the opportunity of building a canal in Panama.
There were at least 100 lives lost building the Panama canal.
1914
William B. Van Ingen is credited with painting the murals in the Panama Canal Building.
They chose panama to build the canal because it was a small piece of land separating the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. The digging of the canal began in 1881.
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After ten years of construction, the Panama Canal was completed in 1914.
If the question is what President oversaw the construction of the Panama Canal, it would be Theodore Roosevelt.
1,000,000 at least
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