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Bookmark or Share- Panama Canal: History, Definition & Canal Zone - HISTORYThe Panama Canal is a massive engineering marvel that connects the Pacific Ocean with the Atlantic Ocean through a 50-mile series of shipping canals and locks.
- Erie Canal | Definition, Map, Location, Construction, History ...Erie Canal, historic waterway of the United States, connecting the Great Lakes with New York City via the Hudson River at Albany. The canal, 363 miles (584 km) long, was the first canal in the United States to connect western waterways with the Atlantic Ocean.
- Panama Canal | Definition, History, Treaty, Map, Locks, & FactsPanama Canal, the lock-type canal that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the narrow Isthmus of Panama. The length of the Panama Canal from shoreline to shoreline is about 40 miles (65 km). It was completed in 1914 and is one of the two most strategic artificial waterways in the world.
- Canal - WikipediaA canal can be called a navigation canal when it parallels a natural river and shares part of the latter's discharges and drainage basin, and leverages its resources by building dams and locks to increase and lengthen its stretches of slack water levels while staying in its valley.
- List of canals in the United States - WikipediaCanals by state. These are man made canals in each state that have been given a name and may consist of a narrow irrigation or drainage ditch to a large ship, municipal water and/or irrigation canal. States with extensive agricultural acreage may have many hundred to thousands of canals.
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