Panama Canal
Locks cross continents
The Panama Canal is a waterway crossing the Isthmus of Panama, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Completed in 1914, it allows ships to avoid the long voyage around South America.
The canal uses a system of locks to raise and lower vessels across the terrain.
The cargo ship passed through the Panama Canal.
Movement between places
- vesselsCarriers or containers
- cargoTransported goods
- container shipsVessels transporting standardized freight boxes
- tankersShips transporting fluids
freighters · navigation · passage · tolls · pilots · convoys · draft · tonnage
Narrow strip connecting landmasses
- Central AmericaIsthmus connecting two continents
- AtlanticOcean bordering Europe
- PacificEarth's vastest ocean
- CaribbeanTropical Atlantic region
landbridge · continental divide · tropical · corridor · chokepoint · shortcut · interoceanic · watershed
Exchange of goods, services
- exportsGoods sold abroad
- importsGoods brought in
- globalizationWorldwide economic and cultural integration
- economySystem of trade and production
shipping lanes · trade routes · logistics · freight · commodities · customs · tariffs · shortcut
Process of building something
- RooseveltFamous presidential surname
- treatyBinding pact between nations
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
- handoverTransfer of control
yellow fever · malaria · workers · 1914
Security fastening devices
- excavationAct of unearthing
- constructionProcess of building something
- dredgingExtracting underwater sediment
- damWater-holding barrier
hydraulics · concrete · infrastructure · civil engineering · geotechnical · earthworks · design · innovation
transit
Movement between places
- vesselsCarriers or containers
- cargoTransported goods
- container shipsVessels transporting standardized freight boxes
tankers · freighters · navigation · passage · tolls · pilots · convoys · draft · tonnage · maritime
isthmus
Narrow strip connecting landmasses
- Central AmericaIsthmus connecting two continents
- AtlanticOcean bordering Europe
- PacificEarth's vastest ocean
Caribbean · landbridge · continental divide · tropical · corridor · chokepoint · shortcut · interoceanic · watershed
commerce
Exchange of goods, services
- exportsGoods sold abroad
- importsGoods brought in
- globalizationWorldwide economic and cultural integration
economy · shipping lanes · trade routes · logistics · freight · commodities · customs · tariffs · shortcut · cost savings
construction
Process of building something
- RooseveltFamous presidential surname
- treatyBinding pact between nations
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
handover · yellow fever · malaria · workers · 1914
locks
Security fastening devices
- excavationAct of unearthing
- constructionProcess of building something
- dredgingExtracting underwater sediment
dam · hydraulics · concrete · infrastructure · civil engineering · geotechnical · earthworks · design · innovation · mechanization
- canal thingsVenice canals, gondolas, narrowboats, towpaths, sluices
- MegaprojectsHoover Dam, Three Gorges Dam, Channel Tunnel, International Space Station, Manhattan Project
- American HegemonyMonroe Doctrine, manifest destiny, territorial expansion, interventionism, regime change
- canalslock gates, lock systems, pound lock, lock gate, towpaths
- Latin America PolicyMonroe Doctrine, NAFTA, USMCA, Pan-Americanism, gunboat diplomacy
- Latin American WatersRio Grande, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Pacific Ocean, Orinoco River
Panama Canalnatural waterway
Earth-formed flowing channel
river · natural channel · natural harbor · fjord · estuary
Panama CanalStrait of Magellan
Channel linking two oceans
strait · Strait of Gibraltar · Bering Strait · natural waterway · natural passage