Panama

Panama

President Jimmy Carter, although the USA really created the nation of Panama to get the canal in the first place, so President Jimmy Carter was actually doing the right thing when he gave Panama the right to control something that was built on their land in the first place. Panama still allows the USA to have a say in how the canal is run.

it was built in 1869 exact date dont know ask someone else. Why did the Chinese built the Grand Canal? 2. In Brief, the ...

A ship wishing to go from the east coast of the US to the west coast would have to go around South America, making the journey a lot longer.

Panama wouldn't get the fees they now receive from each ship passing the Canal.

The distance between the above places is approximately equal to 1495 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.

This sounds like some one who is never satisfied. Your on a cruise ship going through the panama canal, who the HELL cares what direction your going, your in panama for god sakes live with it

The challenge of building the Panama Canal was tremendous. Perhaps the major problem facing the builders were the disease carrying mosquitos.

Although the Panama Canal was supposed to be a great benefit to all of society, including Panamanians, it came to be of only economic benefit to the United States. Panamanian businesses weren't permitted to take advantage of the economic opportunity by selling products or gaining employment in the Canal zone. The canal was of great benefit on the transportation between the west and east coasts of the United States.

The USA invaded Panama in December 1989 under President George bush under the code name OPERATION JUST CAUSE

30,000 men worked and 22,000 died nd about 100% the swag was dead

The current population of Panama is estimated to be 3,661,868 people. There are about 19.53 births per 1000 people and the fertility rate is 2.32

Typhoid and malaria went along way towards retarding the progress of the Canal, with many workers being infected and sick. Quinine, mosquito nets and better sanitation reduced these problems significantly.

Panama is the country separating South and Central America. Therefore, building a canal there would be connecting the two countries.

The Panama Canal connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific. The only other water passages between the oceans are in the Arctic and Antarctic.

It is said the IDEA if not quite the practical reality of an inter-ocean canal were intriguing political leaders as far back as Jefferson. The Intracoastal waterway (also built by the Corps of Engineers) is similar on a much smaller scale.

The Panama Canal is only 50 miles long. Passage runs through two lakes, one natural and the other artificial. There are three sets of locks that ships transit through.

Today,the canal continues to help people send goods all around the world.Also,thecanal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a key conduit for international maritime trades.

Every ship that passes through the canal wastes huge amounts of fresh water.

a war or a crime

First there is the basic action of shaping the land so the canal could exist in the first place. This included cutting the land and creating an artificial lake.

Another point is how the builders of the Panama Canal killed off most of the malaria carrying mosquitoes. This would be something worth researching.

You know where North America is.... And South America... Just North of South America is a very narrow country, that is Panama. The Canal runs North West to South East across the Isthmus of Panama. (Isthmus is the name of a narrow area of land connecting 2 larger land areas)

I am guessing Costa Rica and Venezuela.

No, the Atlantic end of the Panama Canal is not west of the Pacific end; it is actually east of it. The canal runs from the Atlantic Ocean at Colón to the Pacific Ocean at Balboa, making the Pacific end the western terminus.

The answer depends on the context of your question.

If you mean crossing the isthmus during exploration of the Americas, then crossing the isthmus helped confirm to early explorers (who did not have our knowledge of the physical layout of all the oceans and continents as we do today) that the landmass they were on was not an unexplored part of China, but a wholly separate continent with another ocean between the newly discovered Americas and the Far East. The crossing of the isthmus by early explorers forced the world as it then was known to double in size.

If you are referring to the construction of the Panama Canal crossing the Panamanian isthmus, then crossing the isthmus was both an engineering miracle for its time and an economic boon.

As an engineering feat, the Americans succeeded where others had failed. In constructing a canal linking two oceans, the Americans not only built the largest canal (in its day). The canal's locks and waterways are still in commercial us today.

As a economic boon, the ability to cross the isthmus allowed for the faster, cheaper shipment of goods, materials and people between the two oceans. sounds simple - an almost "duh" moment - but when first completed, the canal's ability to shave weeks off Atlantic-to-Pacific sea travel was a godsend.

Last, construction of a canal through the isthmus provided other spin-off benefits. For example, far more workers had perished from disease than from construction accidents. Yet, the discovery of the means of controlling infectious diseases on the isthmus was applicable worldwide (and are still in use today in one form or another).