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The Panama CanalWater Transportation
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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
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U.S.A. and the railroad (1849)
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Ferdinand M. Lesseps • Director of the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal.• In 1880 France began the excavations• In 1889 they stop the construction
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John Frank Stevens• The United States continue with the construction in 1904.
• Stevens was the first Chief Engineer
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Huge Steam Shovels
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The Culebra cut
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George Washington Goethals
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Locks
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Gates
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Gatun Dam
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Gatun Lake
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Culebra cut
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Wall to block the sand
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Gatun Locks
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Pedro Miguel Locks
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Miraflores Locks
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Madden Dam
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http://www.acp.gob.pa/esp/general/howitworks/index.html
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Panama possession (2000)
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Works Cites
http://www.acp.gob.pa/esp/index.html
http://www.tfhrc.gov/pubrds/julaug99/topten.htm