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When was the Panama Canal inaugurated?
2025-02-17 23:04:16 / MISTERE&KURIOZITETE
The Panama Canal was begun by the Americans in 1902 after the failures of the French attempts in 1880. The goal was to shorten trade routes, reduce costs and make greater profits, and they succeeded. With the opening of the Panama Canal, ships shortened their journey by 15,000 km.
The canal was built to have an interoceanic navigation route that would communicate with the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean through the Isthmus of Panama. Today, to pass from one side of the canal to the other, ships must describe three locks that perform the function of leveling the amount of water between one strait and the other to accompany the passage of the ship. In total, the canal is 78 km and rises 26 meters above sea level to describe the entire country. More than a century after its inauguration, the countries that use it most as a sea route are America, Chile, China, Japan and Colombia.
The successful completion of the Suez Canal in 1869 encouraged the French to embark on a similar project; in this case to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, believing that they would achieve it with little difficulty. However, the French engineers encountered many problems; the canal's waterways and, most importantly, tropical diseases (malaria and especially yellow fever), which were unknown and all preventive measures were in vain.
However, the French government did not back down and in 1888 contracted a large workforce of 20,000 people. 8 years later the construction company went bankrupt and at this point France gave America the rights to exploit and build the Panama Canal and control the area around the canal. The Americans had purchased the canal as a developing project and preserved all the canal works. They had inherited the French project with many buildings, infrastructure and teams, many of which had been victims of abandonment for 15 years as well as a harsh and humid forest environment.
The project is in the hands of the Americans.
In 1904, work resumed, although it was not easy, as the infrastructure collapsed. The first years of work were the most difficult of the project and were considered the most crucial. In that year, Panama gained independence from Colombia. A newly formed republic gave the Americans the permanent right to the Canal and a wide area of 8 km on each side in exchange for a sum of 10 million dollars with an annual rent of 250,000 dollars. The work was completed in 1913 and the inauguration was carried out by the steamship, Ancon, which made the first passage through the Panama Canal on August 15, 1914. / Bota.al
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