The Panama Canal

The Panama Canal history dates back to the early explorers of America. The narrow land bridge between North and South America offered a unique opportunity to create a water passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans . The first settlers of Central America recognized the potential of the waterway and has since repeatedly outlined plans for its construction.
At the end of the 1800s were beginning to build serious , because of the huge advances in technology and the insistence of investors. France was the first to take the initiative to build a sea level canal , but failed , even after a lot of digging. The United States took advantage of this French effort which resulted in the present Panama Canal opened in 1914 . The Republic of Panama established its independence, by its separation from Colombia in 1903.
Today, the Panama Canal remains a profitable commercial enterprise and also remains critical maritime connection performance . The strategic location of the Panama Canal and its short distance between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans , has led for many years other attempts to copy the marketing route between the two oceans . Although among the initial plans being hatched an overland route that would connect the ports between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans , speculation about a possible canal goes back to the first European exploration in America.