Panama promotes itself “as the bridge of the world, heart of the universe” but lately the narrow Central American Isthmus and ...

The Panama Minister of Public Works ... At present, three bridges cross the 51-mile artificial waterway - The Atlantic Bridge, the Centennial Bridge and the Bridge of the Americas (Puente de ...

it was an important sailing-ship route before the building of the Panama Canal (completed in 1914) shortened the Atlantic-Pacific passage by several thousand miles. The strait experiences a unique ...