HOW THE PANAMA CANAL FUNCTIONS?
The Panama Canal is a channel of locks, of approximately 80 kms of long, that unites al Caribbean Sea with the Peaceful Ocean in one of the narrowest points of the isthmus of Panama and of the American continent. It opened its doors to the world navigation August 15, 1914. Since then, more than 825,000 ships they have traveled it. The three play of locks of the Channel, of two ways each one, they serve as elevators of water that elevate the ships al level of the Lake Gatún, to 26 meters on the sea, to permit the crossing by the Division Contintental, in order then to descend them al sea level al another side of the Isthmus. For this purpose, the water stored in the Lake is used Gatún. During the locks, they close the floodgates of the cameras of the locks to permit that the water flow for gravity since the body of upper water toward the lower one. They are used around 197 million freshwater liters for each locks, which they pour themselves finally al sea. All this operation is directed
