Panama Canal
The Panama Canal is an artificial 82-kilometer waterway in Panama that connects the Caribbean Sea with the Pacific Ocean. It cuts across the narrowest point of the Isthmus of Panama, and is a conduit for maritime trade between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Navigation canal
- Description: large canal in Panama
- Also known as: “Isthmian Canal”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Miraflores Visitors Center and Miraflores Locks.
Miraflores Visitors Center
Museum
Photo: Youngiovani, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Miraflores Visitors Center is a museum.
Miraflores Locks
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Miraflores is the name of one of the three locks that form part of the Panama Canal, and the name of the small lake that separates these locks from the Pedro Miguel Locks upstream.
Balboa Academy
School building
Balboa Academy is an international, coeducational, college-preparatory school that offers a US curriculum education for Pre-kindergarten through the 12th grade.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include City of Knowledge and Paraíso.
City of Knowledge
Village
Photo: Ayaita, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Panama's Ciudad del Saber is a government-sponsored cluster of academic organizations, technology companies and non-governmental organizations, managed by the foundation of the same name.
Paraíso
Hamlet
Paraíso is a town in the Republic of Panama, located just north of the Panama Canal's Pedro Miguel Locks. It was a vibrant township of the old Canal Zone, though it was segregated for most of its history. Paraíso is situated 5 km northwest of Panama Canal.
Balboa
Photo: Editorpana, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Balboa is a district of Panama City, located at the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal. It was the capital of the Panama Canal Zone under American administration.
Panama Canal
- Categories: ship canal and body of water
- Location: Panama, Central America, North America
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Panama Canal” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Panamakanaal”
- Albanian: “Kanali i Panamasë”
- Amharic: “ፓናማ ቦይ”
- Arabic: “قناة باناما”
- Arabic: “قناة بنما”
- Arabic: “قناه بنما”
- Aragonese: “Canal de Panamá”
- Armenian: “Պանամայի ջրանցք”
- Assamese: “পানামা খাল”
- Asturian: “Canal de Panamá”
- Awadhi: “पनामा नहर”
- Azerbaijani: “Panama kanalı”
- Balinese: “Terusan Panama”
- Bashkir: “Панама каналы”
- Basque: “Panamako kanala”
- Bavarian: “Panamakanal”
- Belarusian: “Панамскі канал”
- Bengali: “পানামা খাল”
- Bhojpuri: “पनामा नहर”
- Bhojpuri: “पनामा”
- Bhojpuri: “पैनामा नहर”
- Bosnian: “Panamski kanal”
- Brahui: “Pánámá Kaenál”
- Breton: “Kanol Panamá”
- Bulgarian: “Панамски канал”
- Burmese: “ပနားမား တူးမြောင်း”
- Catalan: “canal de Panamà”
- Catalan: “Canal de Panamà”
- Cebuano: “Panama Canal (kanal nga nabigasyon)”
- Cebuano: “Panama Canal”
- Central Bikol: “Kanal nin Panama”
- Central Kurdish: “نۆکەندی پەنەما”
- Chechen: “Панаман татол”
- Chechen: “Панамера татол”
- Chinese: “Panama Ūn-hô”
- Chinese: “巴拿馬運河”
- Chinese: “巴拿马运河”
- Chuvash: “Панама каналĕ”
- Cornish: “Goeth Panama”
- Corsican: “Canali di Panama”
- Crimean Tatar: “Panama kanalı”
- Crimean Tatar: “Panama Kanalı”
- Croatian: “Panamski kanal”
- Czech: “Panamský průplav”
- Danish: “Panamakanalen”
- Dhivehi: “ޕެނަމާ ކެނަލް”
- Dutch: “Panamakanaal”
- Eastern Mari: “Панама канал”
- Eastern Mari: “Панаме канал”
- Egyptian Arabic: “قناة باناما”
- Erzya: “Панамань венчсуза”
- Esperanto: “Panama kanalo”
- Estonian: “Panama kanal”
- Faroese: “Panamaveitin”
- Fiji Hindi: “Panama Canal”
- Fiji Hindi: “Panama Nahar”
- Finnish: “Panaman kanava”
- French: “canal de Panama”
- French: “Canal de Panama”
- French: “Canal de Panamá”
- Galician: “Canle de Panamá”
- Gan Chinese: “巴拿馬運河”
- Georgian: “პანამის არხი”
- German: “Panamakanal”
- Greek: “Διώρυγα Παναμά”
- Greek: “Διώρυγα του Παναμά”
- Guarani: “Yrape Panama”
- Haitian: “Kanal Panama”
- Hakka Chinese: “Pâ-nâ-mâ Yun-hò”
- Hakka Chinese: “Panama Yun-hò”
- Hebrew: “תעלת פנמה”
- Hindi: “पनामा नहर”
- Hungarian: “Panama-csatorna”
- Icelandic: “Panamaskurðurinn”
- Ido: “Kanalo di Panama”
- Ido: “Panama-kanalo”
- Iloko: “Kanal Panama”
- Indonesian: “Terusan Panama”
- Interlingua: “Canal de Panama”
- Irish: “Canáil Phanama”
- Italian: “canale di Panama”
- Italian: “Canale di Panama”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Panamaa Kianal”
- Japanese: “パナマ運河”
- Javanese: “Sidhatan Panama”
- Javanese: “Terusan Panama”
- Kabiyè: “Panama Hɛŋa”
- Kabyle: “Targa n Panama”
- Kannada: “ಪನಾಮ ಕಾಲುವೆ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Panama kanalı”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Panama”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Панама илипин”
- Kashmiri: “پَنَما کۄل”
- Kazakh: “Панама каналы”
- Khmer: “ព្រែកជីកប៉ាណាម៉ា”
- Kirghiz: “Панама каналы”
- Korean: “파나마 운하”
- Kurdish: “Kanala Panamayê”
- Latin: “Canalis Panamensis”
- Latvian: “Panamas kanāls”
- Ligurian: “Canâle do Panamá”
- Limburgan: “Panamaknaal”
- Literary Chinese: “巴拿馬運河”
- Lithuanian: “Panamos kanalas”
- Lombard: “Canal de Panama”
- Low German: “Panamakanaal”
- Low German: “Panamakanal”
- Luxembourgish: “Panamakanal”
- Macedonian: “Панамски канал”
- Macedonian: “Панамски Канал”
- Malagasy: “Lakandranon’ i Panama”
- Malagasy: “Lakandranon’i Panama”
- Malay: “Terusan Panama”
- Malayalam: “പനാമ കനാൽ”
- Marathi: “पनामा कालवा”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Panama Ông-ò̤”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Panama Ūn-hô”
- Minangkabau: “Tarusan Panama”
- Mongolian: “Панамын суваг”
- Moroccan Arabic: “قناة پاناما”
- Nepali: “पानामा नहर”
- Newari: “पनामा नहर”
- Northern Frisian: “Panamakanaal”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Panamakanalen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Panamakanalen”
- Norwegian: “Panamakanalen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Canal de Panamà”
- Panjabi: “ਪਨਾਮਾ ਨਹਿਰ”
- Persian: “آبراه پاناما”
- Persian: “کانال پاناما”
- Piemontese: “Canal ëd Panamà”
- Polish: “Kanał Panamski”
- Portuguese: “Canal do Panamá”
- Pushto: “د پاناما کانال”
- Romanian: “Canalul Panama”
- Russia Buriat: “Панамын һубаг”
- Russian: “Панамский канал”
- Rusyn: “Панамскый канал”
- Samogitian: “Panamas kanals”
- Saterfriesisch: “Panamakanoal”
- Serbian: “Панамски канал”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Panamski kanal”
- Sicilian: “Canali di Panamá”
- Sicilian: “Canali di Panamà”
- Sinhala: “panama ala”
- Slovak: “Panamský prieplav”
- Slovenian: “Panamski kanal”
- Slovenian: “Panamski prekop”
- Somali: “Kanaalka Banama”
- South Azerbaijani: “پاناما کانالی”
- Spanish: “Canal de Panama”
- Spanish: “Canal de Panamá”
- Swahili: “Mfereji wa Panama”
- Swedish: “Panamakanalen”
- Swiss German: “Panama-Kanaal”
- Tagalog: “Kanal ng Panama”
- Tagalog: “Kanal Panama”
- Tagalog: “Panama Canal”
- Tamil: “பனாமா கால்வாய்”
- Tatar: “Panama kanalı”
- Telugu: “పనామా కాలువ”
- Thai: “คลองปานามา”
- Tosk Albanian: “Panamakanal”
- Turkish: “Panama Kanalı”
- Turkmen: “Panama kanaly”
- Ukrainian: “Панамський канал”
- Urdu: “نہر پاناما”
- Uzbek: “Panama kanali”
- Venetian: “Canal de Pànama”
- Venetian: “Canałe de Pànama”
- Veps: “Panaman kanal”
- Vietnamese: “Kênh đào Panama”
- Vietnamese: “Kênh đào Panamá”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kanal han Panama”
- Welsh: “Camlas Panama”
- Welsh: “Camlas Panamâ”
- Western Frisian: “Panamakanaal”
- Western Panjabi: “پاناما نہر”
- Western Panjabi: “نہر پانامہ”
- Wu Chinese: “巴拿马运河”
- Yakut: “Панаама ханаала”
- Yiddish: “פאנאמא קאנאל”
- Yoruba: “Ìladò Panamá”
- Yue Chinese: “巴拿馬運河”
- Zeeuws: “Panamakanaol”
- “Canale de Panama”
- “Panamas kanals”
- “पनामा नहर”
Places with the Same Name
Discover other places named “Panama Canal”.
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Miraflores and Cocolí.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Panama Railroad Pond and Cerro Cocolí.
Panama: Must-Visit Destinations
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