Panama Canal

Panama License Plate, 2008	The approach to the Panama Canal from the Pacific side	Puente de las Américas (1962) over the southern (Pacific) entrance to the Panama Canal	Container ship approaching the Panama Canal
The Amador Peninsula provides a view of the approach to the Panama Canal	Container ship heading for the Panama Canal	Breast cancer ribbons in front of the Goethals Monument, Panama	Panama Canal Administrative Building
Via Centenario, a highway linking Panama City with Arraján	Esclusas de Miraflores, the first set of locks on the Panama Canal	Puente Centenario/Centennial Bridge over the Panama Canal	Pedro Miguel Locks, the second set of locks on the Panama Canal
Container ship in the Pedro Miguel Locks, Panama Canal	The Pedro Miguel Locks don't have a nice official viewing point	Propiedad de la Autoridad del Canal de Panama - Prohibido Entrar Sin Autorizacion	Miraflores Visitor's Center, Panama Canal
Steam locomotive at the Miraflores Visitor's Center	Miraflores Visitor's Center - 9 am to 5 pm, $8	The Miraflores Locks, one of three sets of locks on the Panama Canal	The Equuleus Leader (199m, 61804 tons) of the NYK Line transiting the Panama Canal
The second set of locks, Pedro Miguel, visible in the distance along with the Centenario Bridge	Miraflores Locks raise or lower ships 24m in 3 stages	The twin lanes of the Miraflores locks are being augmented by a third channel under construction just west of here	The Panama Canal was opened in 1914 by the USA after the French failure in the 1880s
Panoramic view of the Panama Canal at the Miraflores locks	Ships transiting the Panama Canal from the Pacific side	Plaque dedicated to the builder of the Gaillard Cut, 1907-1913	Miraflores Locks on the Panama Canal, completed in 1913
Panama Canal Museum - Miraflores	Surveying the route through the Panamanian jungle	United States resumed construction of the Panama Canal in 1904 after the newly independent Panama signed a treaty with the US	The challenge of the Culebra Cut, 1907-1913
Model of the hydraulic suction dredge Culebra, built in 1907 for the Panama Canal project	Giant Cerambycid Beetle (Callipogun armillatus)	Canal locomotive used to pull ships through the locks	Model of the Panama Canal - Caribbean side and Gatun Lake
Model of the Panama Canal - central portion	Model of the Panama Canal - Pacific side	The mouth of the Panama Canal at Panama City with the first two sets of locks	Panama Canal Museum - simulation of a container ship transiting the Miraflores locks
Lisa J transiting the Miraflores Locks of the Panama Canal	Miraflores Locks of the Panama Canal	The Bulk Carrier Lisa J, registered in Majuro (Marshall Islands)	The tug boat Alianza tied up alongside at the Miraflores Locks
The Lisa J continues its voyage through the canal	The next ship to arrive at the Miraflores Locks - the crude oil tanker British Security	Miraflores Locks, Panama Canal	The tanker British Security in the first stage of the Miraflores Locks
One of the tug locomotives assisting the British Security through the Panama Canal	Massive gates between the stages of the locks at Miraflores	The Passing the Equuleus Leader as it sails towards the Pedro Miguel Locks	Centennial Bridge, Panama
Driving across the Puente Centenario (Centennial Bridge)	The Gaillard Cut beneath the Centenario Bridge	The Gaillard Cut of the Panama Canal	Puente Centenario - Centennial Bridge - opened in 2004
Walking a section of the Centennial Bridge over the Panama Canal	Panama Canal from the footway across the Centennial Bridge	Gaillard Cut of the Panama Canal from the Centennial Bridge	Centennial Bridge, Panama Canal