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Panama Canal

An 82 km waterway across the isthmus of Panama. Locks lift ships about 27 m to an artificial lake and back down, linking the Atlantic and the Pacific.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1914 CE mainstream
  opens on 15 August, ten years after the United States took over from a failed French attempt source
• 2016 CE mainstream
  a new, wider third set of locks enters commercial service on 26 June source

Where

9.1200° N, 79.7500° W

One point on the canal's route, at the Mamei bend according to OpenStreetMap.

Sources

• https://history.state.gov/milestones/1899-1913/panama-canal
• https://www.asce.org/about-civil-engineering/history-and-heritage/historic-landmarks/panama-canal
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal

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