Panama Canal

1. 100 YEARS OF
THE PANAMA
CANAL
Iveth Lezcano
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2. Panama Canal
The need to shorten
distance made it
challenging to build a
canal that would trade
between all continents.

4. People Involved
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Phillipe Bunau-Varilla
 Alexander von
Humboldt
Theodore Roosevelt
 Gustave Eiffel

6. Construction
problems
Thousands had died from
various diseases , like
malaria, yellow fever, and
there were other causes too
, like accidents that
happened while working.
The Company had almost
gone bankrupt in the

8. Process of evolution of the
Panama Canal
The French started it and
failed. The United States
got the job done during the
Teddy Roosevelt
administration and then the
Panamanian government is
currently conducting a new
set of locks.

10. Process vessels entering
the Canal
Vessels entering the
channel are different draft in
the world today that big
ships do not make it to
today called Post Panamax
locks are built and are
responsible for the new set