The Panama Canal

Alhajuela Ancon Hill Assuan Assuan Dam Atlantic average barrage Bates Boca Bohio Bohio Dam breakwaters cent central lake Chagres River Chagres watershed channel clay Colon Comité Technique Commission of 1901 construction cost cubic yard currents depth dimensions discharge diversions dredges dykes Empty Basin engineering entrance estimates excavation factors flood French Gamboa Dam Gatun Dam Isthmian Isthmus knots per hour La Boca Lake Bohio Lake Chagres Lake Panama length lift Limon Bay LINDON lock lock canal low water Lower Chagres maximum mean Mindi Miraflores Naos norther Obispo Triangle ocean Pacific PANAMA CANAL Panama Railroad Panama Railway Pedro Miguel Perico PROJECT FOR PANAMA proposed rainfall ridges ROCK FILL run-off safe sanitary sea-level canal ship silt slopes sluice sluice dams Sosa Spillway spoil square miles stream Suez Canal Surplus swamps terminal lakes tidal tide tonnage tons transit tunnel Upper Chagres valley vessels waterway width