Ministery of Education

Name:
Danna Cubilla
Teacher:
Omaira Espinosa
School:
c.e.b.g. la siesta
level:
9°C
School year:
2022
 index
presentation……………………1
index…………………………….2
contruction of panama canal……..3
ilustration……………….4
conclution 14
 Construction of panama canal

The Panama Canal1 is a navigation channel

located between the Caribbean Sea and the
Pacific Ocean. It crosses the narrowest point
of the Isthmus of Panama (82 km).2

Considered one of the great works of world

engineering of the 20th century,34556789 the
canal works through locks at each end that
lift ships to Gatun Lake, a lake artificial
created to reduce the amount of work
required for the excavation of the channel, to
27.5 meters above sea level, to later lower
them to the level of the Pacific or the
Atlantic. Before its opening, the natural
passages used between the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans were the Strait of Magellan
and Cape Horn, located at the southern end of
Chile.10
Ilustration
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Panama of canal

Since its inauguration on August 15, 1914,

the canal has managed to shorten maritime
communication in time and distance,
boosting commercial and economic exchange
by providing a short and relatively cheap11
transit route between the two oceans,
decisively influencing the patterns of world
trade,12 driving economic growth in
developed and developing countries,11 as
well as providing the basic impetus for
economic expansion in many remote regions
of the world.131415 In 2012, the United
States China, Chile, Japan, and South Korea
were the top five users of the canal,16 which
takes eight to ten hours to cross.3 The
expanded canal opened in 2016, after a
decade of construction.
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Ilustration
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¿ How was the construction of the Panama
Canal?

The French worked for 20 years, beginning in

1880, but illness and financial problems
overcame them. In 1903, Panama and the
United States signed a treaty whereby the
United States undertook the construction of
an interoceanic canal for ships through the
Isthmus of Panama.
¿Where does the money from the Panama
Canal go?
The Panama Canal delivers 2,080 million
dollars to the treasury as an annual
contribution. Panama City, Dec 16 (EFE). -
The Panama Canal delivered this Thursday
more than 2,080 million dollars to the
Panamanian State as a contribution
corresponding to the year 2021, in which the
road registered a record of transited tons 3
Ilustration

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¿Who started the construction of the Panama
Canal?
Alvaro de Saavedra y Cerón, in 1529, was the
first to propose the construction of an inter-
oceanic canal through the Isthmus of Panama,
following instructions from Emperor Carlos
V who, however, that same year, in exchange
for financial compensation, renounced the
rights of the Spanish empire over the
Moluccas, putting .

The State of the Isthmus was a former

independent republic that encompassed the
Isthmus of Panama; it was constituted on
November 18, 1840, separating from the
Republic of New Granada.
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 Ilustration

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 ¿ How long does it take a ship to cross the
Panama Canal?

The Panama Canal is about 80 kilometers (50

miles) long from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
How long does it take to transit the Canal? A
ship takes an average of 8 to 10 hours to
transit the Panama Canal.
Which countries benefit from the Panama Canal?
MAIN USING COUNTRIES OF THE
PANAMA CANAL
USA.
China.
Japan.
Chili.
South Korea.
Mexico.
Colombia.
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Ilustration

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 Conclution
The Panama Canal is important for the
connection it establishes between the Pacific
Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, which allows
and facilitates trade between countries. In
addition, due to its complex, modern and
imposing infrastructure, which reveals the
excellent work done by man at the time of its
construction. And because of the great
technological advance that it brought with it,
which remained throughout world history.