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PanamaExplorers

  1. A boat traveling from New York to San Francisco saves 7,872 miles by using the Panama Canal instead of going around Cape Horn
  2. Fortune magazine's 2005 retirement guide chose Boquete as one of the 5 best places in the world to retire? http://www.panamaexplorers.com/
  3. The Panama Canal cruise season runs from October to April. The best time to go is after the rainy season ends in November
  4. The dam constructed across the Chagres River in Gatun created Gatun Lake , the largest man-made lake in the world at that time...
  5. # If material originally excavated to build the Panama Canal were put on to a train of flat cars, it would encircle the world four times
  6. More than 30% of Panama is protected through 15 national parks, 5 forest preserves and 10 wildlife refuges
  7. Fortune magazine's 2005 Retirement Guide chose Boquete as one of the five best places in the world to retire
  8. # Due to the reclining "S" shape of the Isthmus of Panama the sun rises from the Pacific and sets in the Atlantic Ocean
  9. More than 30% of Panama is protected through 15 national parks, 5 forest preserves and 10 wildlife refuges
  10. More than four and half million cubic yards of concrete went in to the construction of the locks and dams of the Panama Canal
  11. Copa airlines with excellent airfares to Panama from Washington
  12. Ships traveling between New York and San Francisco save 7,872 miles by using the Panama Canal instead of going around Cape Horn
  13. The cargo ship Ancon was the first vessel to transit the Panama Canal on August 15, 1914
  14. In fiscal year 2008 to Panama Canal earned 2 billion dollars in tolls
  15. Panama was the first Latin American country to adopt the U.S. currency as its own
  16. Panama City is the only capital city that has a rain forest within the city limits
  17. The oldest continually operating railroad is in Panama. It travels from Panama City to Colon and back.
  18. The canal generates fully one-third of Panama's entire economy.
  19. In Panama, you can swim in the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean in the same day....
  20. Did you know? Panama is the only place in the world where you can see the sun rise on the Pacific and set on the Atlantic