The Panama Canal: The Destruction Of The Panama Canal

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The Panama Canal The Panama Canal is a waterway that links the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It stretches “about fifty miles long and connects the two oceans”. The canal was built to provide a route for boats and ships to travel. Traveling the canal “saves about 8000 miles (12,875 km) from a journey around the southern tip of South America, Cape Horn”. The panama canal construction “begun by Ferdinand de Lesseps in 1881’’. The completion of the canal was abandoned in the late 1880’s. “A contributory cause was the very high sick and death rate among the French employees on the Isthmus.” The United states took over the project in 1904 and completed it in 1914. The Panama Canal was under …show more content…

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