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Panama Canal Turns 100 Amid Growing Pains, Competition


Panama Canal Turns 100 Amid Growing Pains, Competition
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The Panama Canal opened 100 years ago, on August 15, 1914. It is 77 kilometers long. It joins the Atlantic and Pacific oceans at Panama. It made the world smaller -- cargo ships no longer had to sail around South America.

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