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The Panama Canal Opened 112 Years Ago Today : The Tico Times | Costa Rica News

Summary by The Tico Times
Twelve years of digging, an estimated 27,500 deaths and roughly $375 million ended quietly on the morning of August 15, 1914, when a single steamship slipped into a lock chamber on Panama’s Caribbean coast and began climbing a staircase of water. The SS Ancon, a cargo and passenger vessel of the Panama Railroad Company, left Cristóbal at Colón and reached the Pacific port of Balboa about nine hours later. It was the first official transit of the…

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