For Panama Canal visitors, here’s a guide to experiencing and understanding the mega engineering project that captivates the ...

More than 100 years after the construction of the engineering marvel that linked the Atlantic and Pacific oceans — and 25 ...

Gatún Lake boat tours depart mainly from Gamboa Marina. Gamboa is a vibrant green jungle town less than an hour’s drive from Panama City into the middle of the canal’s route teeming with ...

The Panama Canal is no stranger to global attention. President-elect Donald Trump’s threats to “demand that the Panama Canal be returned to the United States of America, in full, quickly and ...

Opening of the Panama Canal showing American Steamship SS Ancon leaving the west chamber of the upper Gatun locks and entering Gatun Lake, Panama, August 15, 1914. - PhotoQuest/Getty Images The US ...

Gatún Lake boat tours depart mainly from Gamboa Marina. Gamboa is a vibrant green jungle town less than an hour’s drive from Panama City into the middle of the canal’s route teeming with ...

The Danish cargo ship Lars Maersk sails on Gatun Lake near the Agua Clara Locks of the Panama Canal in Colon City, Panama, on December 28, 2024. (Arnulfo Franco/AFP via Getty Images) After Panama ...

Since 2000, Panama has overseen the administration of the canal. However, the region, one of the wettest until recently, experienced a rainfall deficit in 2022. Gatun Lake, which provides the 200 ...

In 2023, on a research trip to Panama ... a single ship through the canal’s locks can use around 50 million gallons of water, mainly freshwater collected from Lake Gatún.