The canal connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans Before the canal, ships had to sail 13,000 miles around the tip of South America An artificial lake across Panama connects the oceans. The Gatun ...

It sits about 10 miles west of the edge of Lake Gatún, the enormous freshwater reservoir that feeds the mighty Panama Canal. Río Indio is crucial to the canal system. And soon, Benite and ...

Each transit requires a staggering 50 million gallons of water from Lake Gatún, which not only feeds the canal but also provides drinking water for more than 50% of Panama’s growing population.

Stevens would dam the mighty Chagres to create the vast Gatun Lake in Panama's interior. A series of locks would raise ships from the Atlantic side to the level of the lake. The boats would cross ...

Water levels in Gatun Lake, the rainfall-fed principal reservoir that floats ships through the Panama Canal’s lock system, have “continued to decline to unprecedented levels for this time of ...

Gatun Lake is a large man-made lake located on the northern side of the country. It’s part of the Panama Canal system, and fun to be sharing the waters with large container ships! Gatun Lake is ...

The Panama Canal Authority (ACP ... The decision was made after an increase in the levels of salt was detected in the Gatun Lake which serves the interoceanic path. Experts claim the abnormality ...

Where are they now? Leila Nilipour In the mid-sixties, almost 50 years after the creation of the artificial Gatun Lake for the operations of the Panama Canal, the Health Bureau of the Panama Canal ...

The Marshall Islands cargo ship Cape Hellas (L) and the Portuguese cargo ship MSC Elma sail on Gatun Lake near the Agua Clara Locks of the Panama Canal in Colon City, Panama, on December 28 ...

Stevens would dam the mighty Chagres to create the vast Gatun Lake in Panama's interior. A series of locks would raise ships from the Atlantic side to the level of the lake. The boats would cross ...