Bridge of the Americas | from WEST a EAST | 360º Video
Channel: virKtual
Date: 2021-05-26

Bridge of the Americas

The Panama Canal is located in Central America, in the country of Panama, it is the narrowest stretch of land in the entire Americas, the main reason why it was decided to build the canal there.

The Panama Canal is an interoceanic waterway located between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean that crosses the narrowest point of the Isthmus of Panama, 50 miles.

Considered one of the great works of world engineering of the 20th century, the canal works through locks at each end that lift ships to Gatun Lake, an artificial lake created to reduce the amount of work required to excavate the canal. , at 90 feet above sea level, to later descend to the level of the Pacific or the Atlantic.

Before its opening, the natural passages used between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans were the Strait of Magellan and Cape Horn (entering through the Pacific Ocean, located at the southern tip of Chile) and flowing into the Argentine Sea (Atlantic Ocean). .

In these views, traveling west to east through the Bridge of the Americas built in 1962, we see on the right the Pacific entrance of the canal, in front we see Panama City and on the left we see the container ports of Panama Ports.

From its opening in 1914 to 1962 the country was divided into 2 and the only way that Panamanians could cross the canal was by ferry, which could only transport 12 cars at a time.