Panama Canal

The Panama Canal connects the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean.

The cost for a ship to use the Panama Canal depends on several factors, but the biggest calculation is the percentage of space on the vessel used for revenue. Thusly, a cruise ship will pay significantly more than a tanker.

What are natural resources of the caribbean?

>>>>>>natural resources of the caribbean, the carribean natanion are not rich in natural resources. The resources that make significant contributions to domestic economies and regional job sectors include, but are not limited to: fisheries,nickel,iron,bauxite,petroleum and timber.

The Caribbean's most important resource is its tropical island setting, which has generated a unique tourism sector.

The greatest concentrations of minerals most valuable on the international market are found in: Cuba has increase the production in tourism,oil and nickel,Jamaica bauxite and alumina industry , and Trinidad and Tabago are the lending export in Carribean.

While Agriculture is the major economic land-use activity in most carribbean country.

The Panama Canal separates North and South America. In reality, they are considered the same continent in many respects. In a similar fashion, the Suez Canal separates Africa from the Eurasia Continent.

Before the Panama Canal was built, traders from Europe that traveled by sea had to go down the coast of South America and around the Southern most tip of the North American continent in order to get to places on the west coast of North and South America, like California. This was a very dangerous trip, because the water around the most southern bit of the North American continent has very still water and is full of icebergs, making it hard to navigate.
Once the Panama Canal was in place, the traders could simply go straight through without having to go down and around the whole continent. This shortcut also saved travelers about three months on ship voyages.

Both are canals and both have made shipping much cheaper.

A French engineer by the name of de Lesseps

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My son's wife is Japanese and worked in a Toyota factory in Japan in 2001-2006. She says that starting income is about $18,000 per year. Benefits are worth about $3000 per year. Average income for a worker is about $31,000. I guess that's why it's hard for our companies to compete. She thinks that we are crazy or stupid for paying a bunch of high school graduates so much for doing such a simple job.

Well what a thought, heres one. These Americn workers in these Toyota plants like Georgetown, Ky. will probley last about 15 years working at the pace and stress they put on their bodies. Between worn out shoulders, knees, hips, and all other kinds of wear-down on their bodies they will be lucky to surivive to retire. So when you go and bash workers for making a descent living think about how much money their companies are putting in the bank and doing it at the cost of the broken down bodies of the workers. I suggest you try their jobs and see how much they go through, I know because I am one of them with two bad sholders and hip.......

The US didn't gain control of the Panama Canal, we built it! It was one of Teddy Roosevelts ventures.

When Panama declared independance the US recognized the republic of panama. soon afterward a new treaty with panama gave the us complete and unending soverieignty over a 10 mile wide Canal Zone.

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On September 7, 1977,a treaty was signed by President Jimmy Carter and Omar Torrijos, de facto leader of Panama, granting Panamanians free control of the canal, so long as Panama guaranteed complete neutrality of the canal. The treaty led to full Panamanian control, effective at noon on December 31, 1999.

It takes eight to ten hours for the average ship to go through the Panama Canal.

He did not. Other had tried before and failed, the French builder that made the Suez Canal for instant. He just realized that it had to be done and put the resources together.

The biggest problem was disease and until the mosquitoe was taken care

of, progress on the canal couldn't move forward.

it took them 10 years to build the Panama Canal.

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Also, the Panama Isthmus is a high ridge. The first attempt, by the French civil engineer de Lesseps, was at sea-level in the way he had successfully designed the Suez Canal; but failed due to the sheer difficulty and cost of cutting through the hill rather than using locks and feeder-rivers.

The distance between the above places is approximately equal to 7649 nautical miles. To convert miles to nautical miles, multiply the miles by 0.86. This is point to point straight distance. The actual distance will change according to the route.

== == Each year over 14,000 vessels pass through the Panama Canal.

The building of the Panama Canal was first started in 1881 by the French Government and due to a variety of problems ended unsuccessfully in 1889. The French failed because they tried to copy their success with the Suez Canal by building the Panama Canal at sea-level, but trying to cut a very deep trench through the Panamanian hills proved just too much. The builders themselves also suffered very severely from malaria and other diseases.

In 1903, Panama officially declared itself an independent country, giving the United States construction rights for the canal.

In February of 1904, the US Congress officially created the Panama Canal Zone.

The Panama Canal was built by the United States between 1904 and 1914 on territory leased from Panama. The American designers realized the cut would have to go over the hills, using locks replenished from upland rivers. Incidentally, although nominally at sea-level and through a low-lying desert plain, the Suez Canal does have locks, but only at its Northern end and to cope with tidal differences between the Mediterranean and Red Seas. After 10 years of extremely difficult conditions, primarily caused by disease, the US completed the Panama Canal on August 15, 1914.

Shipping traffic started using the canal from its unofficial opening on 15 August 1914, but it was officially opened by US president Woodrow Wilson on 12 July 1920.

the Panama Canal

They wanted to build the Panama Canal because it took a very long time to get from the Atlantic to the Pacific, or the other way around. The Panama Canal made it easier for the U.S Navy to gety around

well basicly the day panama came to existense was the day i was born (none of your bissness)

Technically, Costa Rica has a small piece of land that is north of Panama, other than that, the only thing north of Panama is the Caribbean Sea. If you keep going north far enough you'll get to the the United States.
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Costa Rica is located between Nicaragua and Panama. Both countries are bordered by the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.

The region was settled by the Spanish in the 16th Century but broke away 1821. Panama joined a union with Venezuela and Ecuador called the Republic of Gran Colombia. This was dissolved in 1831. Panama ceded from Colombia in 1903 allowing the Panama Canal to be built between 1904 and 1914 by the US Corps of Engineers and others. The Canal transferred from the US to Panama by the end of the 20th Century

On June 29, 1951, the executive orders were given to Transfer the jurisdiction of the Panama Canal to the Panama Rail Road Company.