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Traveling to the Panama Canal in Central America

The country of Panama has a strategic location, unique geographical and tried his best over the centuries to explore this fully. Since the time of the Portobello fairs to the railroad transisthmian first present to the interior, often considered the eighth wonder of the world.

A canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans had been a dream since the first Spanish settlement. Actually, it was Charles V of Spain who first envisaged a shortcut through the Panamanian jungle to ease the difficult crossing. Thus, in 1524, ordered an inquiry into the earth. However, which inspired the king initially was not so much the possibilities of trade, both as a way to bring back to Spain with less difficulty the treasures of the treasure discovered recently in Peru. Unfortunately for him, earth-moving techniques were to need to improve before your big idea could be realized.

It was not until 1826 when the United States began investigating a treaty with the countries of South America to "protect companies that want an open system communication between the two oceans, "the building of a canal attracted worldwide interest, with France, Britain and the United States looking for locations and resources to avoid the long journey, difficult and dangerous around Cape Horn. The first attempt at this was the construction of the Railroad Transisthmian in 1855, which eliminated about 8,000 kilometers of the route.

The first attempt at a canal was in 1854 by a multinational expedition comprising the United States, France, England and New Granada. But the impenetrability of the forest has taken its toll and the attempt failed with many deaths resulting. But do not be shy about this effort more crucial, in 1878 the French obtained a concession from Colombia to build a waterway. Again, after seven years of fighting disease and other problems of the jungle, was attempting to fail with yellow fever, malaria and various plagues dominating. This project, with the idea of building a channel level, was eventually abandoned at the turn of the century.

Eventually the creation of a canal became a military imperative for the United States, which began (unsuccessful) negotiations with Colombia in 1902. Finally, Panama declared its independence from Colombia in 1903 and the project went ahead. The monumental construction took 10 years to complete at a cost of $ 387 million.

The Panama Canal is 50 kilometers long between northwest to southeast. About eight hours is required for a typical boat traffic channel, while being gradually raised to a height of 85 feet through three sets of locks – the Gatun, Pedro Miguel and Miraflores.

Operating the gigantic locks consumes large quantities of fresh water. For every ship passing along the waterway, about 52 million gallons of water flows into the locks, then the sea. This comes from Gatun and Madden lakes. The gates lock, marvels of engineering, consisting of pairs of leaves high 47-82 feet tall, 65 feet wide and 7 meters thick. Its weight is 400-700 tons, but each can be opened or closed in 2 minutes, powered by electric motors.

To navigate the channel, the captain of a ship shall waive responsibility for his ship for a pilot of the Panama Canal. Currently over 250 pilots to drive more than 14,000 ships through the canal each year. The total time spent in the channel is about a whole day. Navigating the channel is not cheap for vessels, averaging 10s of thousands of dollars, depending on size the ship and its contents. However, whatever the toll, it is usually ten times more than it would cost to sail around Cape Horn.

The Committee on Panama Canal greets visitors at the Miraflores Locks on the Pacific side of the Isthmus seven days a week from 9am to 5pm. Vessels passing the locks can be seen from a pavilion where commentators provide an English commentary and Spanish, giving all the details of the channel, including the startling statistics. Yachts and boats small as container ships, cruise enormous and even small submarines, the Panama Canal is truly an international crossing point.

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