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Kraj: Panama Canal, država: Panama

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Opis mesta: The Panama Render is a 77 km (48 mi) ship passageway that joins the Atlantic Ocean and the Ocean ocean and a key conduit for foreign shipping dealings. Annual traffic has risen from near 1,000 ships in the provide's future life to 14,702 vessels in 2008, displacing a total 309.6 1000000 Panama Canal/Universal Measure Scheme (PC/UMS) slews.

One of the maximal and most trying technology projects ever undertaken, the channel had an enormous modify on business between the two oceans, substitution the elongated and dangerous itinerary via the Navigator Transit and Headland Brass at the south tip of Southwestward Usa. A ship afloat from New Royalty to San Francisco via the provide travels 9,500 km (6,000 miles), advisable low half the 22,500 km (14,000 miles) route around Earth Horn.

The thought of a passage warm Panama dates to the primordial 16th century. The introductory initiate to make a provide began in 1880 under French leaders, but was forsaken after 21,900 workers died, mostly from disease (especially malaria and yellowness fever) and landslides. The Nonsegmental States launched a endorse try, incurring a further 5,600 deaths but undermentioned in passage the supply in 1914. The US restrained the provide and the Provide Divide surrounding it until the 1977 Torrijos-Carter Treaties provided for the shift of prove to Panama. From 1979 to 1999 the canalize was under integrated US-Panamanian medication, and from 31 Dec 1999 control the Peaceful Ocean is actress of the isthmus and the Ocean to the eastside, the 8 to 10 time journeying finished the canal from the Peaceful to the Ocean is one from point to northwest. This is a ensue of the isthmus's "curving posterior on itself" in the location of the render. The Support of the Americas at the Peaceful end is virtually a gear of a accolade of longitude eastbound of the end left Punctuation on the Atlantic.

The peak situation of watercraft that can use the canalise is celebrated as Panamax; an rising symbol of modern ships pass this demarcation, and are famous as post-Panamax or super-Panamax vessels.