Using locks to aid movement between Limon Bay and the Pacific, it allows ships to avoid rounding Cape Horn.
It runs parallel to the Boyd-Roosevelt Highway from Colón to Balboa, and parts of it depend on the drainage of Lake Miraflores and Lake Gatún, fed by the Chagres River. This structure crossed by the Centennial Bridge includes the Gaillard Cut. Using locks to aid movement between Limon Bay and the Pacific, it allows ships to avoid rounding Cape Horn. For 10 points, name this artificial waterway that runs through a namesake Central American country.
It runs parallel to the Boyd-Roosevelt Highway from Colón to Balboa, and parts of it depend on the drainage of Lake Miraflores and Lake Gatún, fed by the Chagres River.
{Panama} Canal