Section One The problem was the great 12,000 mile distance to go around South America to get to from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean or vice versa. The solution was to make canal to cut the distance down significantly. Vasco Nunez de Balboa discovered the Pacific coast in the 1513. Man...

The Panama Canal is one of the very few modern endeavors that has changed the Face of the planet on which we live. The Panama Canal should be known as the eighth wonder of the world. It split a continent and connected the world as no other man made creation ever had. Despite previous failures by ot...

The Panama Canal is one of the very few modern endeavors that has changed the Face of the planet on which we live. The Panama Canal should be known as the eighth wonder of the world. It split a continent and connected the world as no other man made creation ever had. Despite previous failures by ot...

The Panama Canal is one of the greatest works of engineering and modern achievements of mankind. An all-water passage through the continental divide of the Panama region had been suggested since early Spanish colonial times of the 16th century. The reality of a canal through the Isthmus of Panam...