What Is the Panama Canal?

What Is the Panama Canal?

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Janet B. Pascal; Who HQ; Tim Foley

Before 1914, traveling from the East Coast to the West Coast meant going by land across the entire United States. To go by sea involved a long journey around South America and north along the Pacific Coast. But then, in a dangerous and amazing feat of engineering, a 48-mile-long channel was dug through Panama, creating the world’s most famous shortcut: the Panama Canal!

 

 


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