Canalis Panamensis est fossa navilis in Panama situs, quo oceani Atlantici Pacificique coniunguntur, gravissimus orbis terrarum canalis. Habet tres seras, quarum omnes sunt paene 33 metra latae et paene 300 metra longae. Quotidie paene quadraginta naves canalem transeunt. Multi homines per eam in otii itinere meari volunt.

Historia

Canalis est unus veterrimorum orbis terrarum canalium hodie in usu, maior quam C&D^? canalis, magnus, etiam una maximorum et difficillimorum fabricorum umquam coeptorum, 48 milia passuum longa. Anno 1900 a Civitatibus Foederatis Americae coepto, canalis die 15 Augusti anno 1914 confectus est. Anno 1962 Pons Americarum in fossam perfectus est.

Bibliographia

• Cullen, Ben. 2010. The Panama Canal and Me: A Panamax Special. ISBN 978-0-8212-7754-6.
• Hoffman, Jon T., Michael J. Brodhead, Carol R. Byerly, Glenn F. Williams. 2009. "The Panama Canal: An Army's Enterprise." United States Army Center of Military History 70–115–1. https://web.archive.org/web/20150403023219/http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/panama/panamacanal/index.html.
• Jaen, Omar. 2005. Las Negociaciones de los Tratados Torrijos-Carter, 1970-1979 2 voll. Panama: Autoridad del Canal de Panama. ISBN 9962-607-32-9.
• Jorden, William J. 1984. Panama Odyssey. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-76469-3.
• McCullough, David. 1977. The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914. Novi Eboraci: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-22563-4.
• Mellander, Gustavo A. 1971. The United States in Panamanian Politics: The Intriguing Formative Years. Daville, Ill.: Interstate Publishers. OCLC 138568.
• Mellander, Gustavo A., et Nelly Maldonado Mellander. 1999. Charles Edward Magoon: The Panama Years. Río Piedras, Puerto Rico: Editorial Plaza Mayor. ISBN 1-56328-155-4. OCLC 42970390.
• Murillo, Luis E. 1995. The Noriega Mess: The Drugs, the Canal, and Why America Invaded. Berkeley: Video Books. ISBN 0-923444-02-5.
• Parker, Matthew. 2007. Panama Fever: The Epic Story of One of the Greatest Human Achievements of All Time: The Building of the Panama Canal. Novi Eboraci: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-51534-4.
• Sherman, Gary. 2008. "Conquering the Landscape (Gary Sherman explores the life of the great American trailblazer, John Frank Stevens)." History Magazine, July.

Nexus interni

• Fretum Magellanicum
• Lacus Gatun