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1. ¿In what date was the panama canal inaugurate and which vessel transited for the first time?
R- When we speak of Panama immediately we think of the Panama Canal, that vital transit route for global trade and main purpose of Panamanian tourism.

The crossing of the first ship, Anton, through its locks, 15 August 1914, was the motto of "The Land Divided, The World United."

The Canalsaves many ships dedicated to exports, not only miles away, but many hours and money it brought, before the construction of the Panama Canal, cross the dangerous Strait of Magellan and Southern.

The Panama Canal, makes the water up and down the vessels in each set of locks, they are actually a kind of ladder whose rungs to climb or descend filled or emptied of water. This whole process is obtainedby gravity from Lake Gatun.

Water enters through a system of main culverts that are 10 games that extend below the lock chambers from side walls, and 10 games from the central wall.

Each sewer has a set of five holes of 1.37 meters in diameter.

As you pour the water into the sewer main, it is distributed through 100 holes in the floor of the chamber.

For each vessel transiting theCanal is used about 52 million gallons of fresh water, which flows by gravity through the locks and discharged into the ocean.

The boats and ships transiting the Panama Canal are towed from one camera to another in each set of locks by electric locomotives (mules), especially designed for this purpose.

2. ¿In hour many stages was the Panama Canal constructed?
R- In 1876, the GeographicalSociety of Paris organized a committee to promote international cooperation for studies to fill gaps on the geographical knowledge of the area of ​​Central America in order to build a canal. The committee, a limited company, the Société Civile Internationale du Canal Interoceanique of Darien, was headed by Ferdinand de Lesseps. The French Navy Lieutenant, Lucien NB Wyse, grandson of LucienBonaparte, was assigned to explore the Isthmus. Armand Reclus, also a naval lieutenant, was his chief assistant.

After exploring several routes in the region of Darien and the Atrato, Wyse returned to Paris in April 1877. However, de Lesseps rejected all these plans because they included the construction of tunnels and locks. During a second exploratory visit to the Isthmus began on December 6,1877, Wyse explored two routes in Panama: San Blas route and the route from Limon Bay to Panama City, which is the current route of the Canal . Select the latter, his plan was to build a canal to the sea level. The route would run almost parallel to the Panama Railroad and would require a tunnel of 7.720 meters long across the Continental Divide at Culebra.

With this plan for a canal throughPanama, Wyse traveled to Bogota, where, on behalf of the company, negotiated a treaty with the Colombian government. The treaty, signed on March 20, 1878, was known as the Wyse Concession. Société Civile gave the exclusive right to build a canal through Panama. As a provision of the treaty, the waterway would revert to the Colombian government after 99 years without compensation.

3. ¿How many locksdoes the Panama Canal have mention their names?
R- There are three sets of locks in the canal. A history of two stages in Miraflores, and a record of a stage Pedro Miguel, elevation sends the Pacific to the Gatun Lake, then a triple track it down at Gatun the Atlantic side. The three sets of locks are matched, ie there are two parallel paths of locks in each of the three sites of the lock. This,in principle, allows ships to pass in opposite directions simultaneously, however, large ships can not cross safely at speed in the Gaillard Cut.

The lock chambers are 33.53 meters (110 feet) wide by 320.0 meters (1050 feet) long, with a length of 304.8 meters useable (1000 feet).

These dimensions determine the maximum size of ships that can use the channel, this is known as Panamax...