The Panama CanalWater Transportation

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

In 1513 a Spanish military leader or conquistador discovered this stretch part of land between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean

U.S.A. and the railroad (1849)

Ferdinand M. Lesseps • Director of the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal.• In 1880 France began the excavations• In 1889 they stop the construction

John Frank Stevens• The United States continue with the construction in 1904.

• Stevens was the first Chief Engineer

Huge Steam Shovels

The Culebra cut

George Washington Goethals

Locks

Gates

Gatun Dam

Gatun Lake

Culebra cut

Wall to block the sand

Gatun Locks

Pedro Miguel Locks

Miraflores Locks

Madden Dam

http://www.acp.gob.pa/esp/general/howitworks/index.html

Panama possession (2000)

Works Cites

http://www.acp.gob.pa/esp/index.html

http://www.tfhrc.gov/pubrds/julaug99/topten.htm