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Panama Canal

Background: With US backing, Panama seceded from Colombia in 1903 and promptly signed a treaty with the US allowing for the construction of a canal and US sovereignty over a strip of land on either side of the structure (the Panama Canal Zone). The Panama Canal was built by the US Army Corps of Engineers between 1904 and 1914. On 7 September 1977, an agreement was signed for the complete transfer of the Canal from the US to Panama by the end of 1999. Certain portions of the Zone and increasing responsibility over the Canal were turned over in the intervening years. With US help, dictator Manuel NORIEGA was deposed in 1989. The entire Panama Canal, the area supporting the Canal, and remaining US military bases were turned over to Panama by or on 31 December 1999.




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A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!
September 30th 2009  Central America Caribbean » Panama » Panamá » Panama Canal
Ah, my favourite palindrome of all time, and now I get to use it as a blog title - result! We arrived in Panama City yesterday, and thus came to the halfway point of our journey, in terms of: - ... 5 photos [full story]

End of the tour..and a new adventure!
189 days ago: michelekavo published a blog
End of the tour..and a new adventure!
May 14th 2009  Central America Caribbean » Panama » Panamá » Panama Canal
The last 2 weeks of the tour have flown by!! We have done 3 days of more than 12 hour travelling so it‘s been tiring…but still had fun!! We left Guatemala on Monday morning 27th April ... 20 photos [full story]


Panama Canal Blog Entries


A banana bridge, the Costa Rica - Panama border
The red-legged honey creeper is back!
Golden-hooded tanager (Tangara larvata fanny)
San Blas
Katelyn, Katie and me
winking for El Ted
virgin, baby and container wharf
Kuna girls
local princesses
finest Mola
what a choice
bite my tongue
Dregers Moved Mountains of Dirt
what you lookin at honkey
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huge ship makes it through!

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