Everyone knows how important water is to life. In any country, there is a big help in the development of traffic or agriculture through canals. There are many cities in the world, where the canals can carry traffic within the city itself. Although the canals are not usually long, but today we are going to tell you about such a canal, which is so long that ships take 10 hours on average to cross it. The story of the construction of this canal is also very interesting, knowing about which you will also be surprised. The name of this canal is the Panama Canal, which is located in Panama, Central America. This canal connects the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean (via the Caribbean Sea). This 82 km long canal is one of the major waterways of international trade, from which more than 15 thousand small and big ships pass through it every year. However, when this canal was built, around 1000 ships used to pass through here.

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The distance between the eastern and western coasts of America decreases by about 12,875 kilometers when passing through this canal, otherwise the ships would have to take a long detour, which would take about two weeks. Now ships complete this distance in 10-12 hours only. The Panama Canal passes through the freshwater lake 'Gatun', whose water level is 26 meters above sea level. Three locks have been made for the entry of ships here, in which ships are first entered and then filled with water, it is lifted up so that it can pass through this lake. It is the only waterway in the world, where the captain of any ship fully delegates control of his ship to the local expert captain of Panama.

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In the year 1904, America started the work of constructing this canal and finally in 1914 it completed the work of the canal. It is said that the US completed the construction of this canal two years before the scheduled time. The construction of this canal is considered to be the largest and most difficult engineering project in the world.

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