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Panama Canal: The 82 km long Canal was a major engineering accomplishment that greatly shortened trips between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. US-backed Panamanian separatists seeking independence from Columbia after being refused the right to dig the canal. Within a month of independence the Americans were granted full permission to build the canal Bonus fun fact: Construction of the Canal involved an approximate 9 km section through a mountain. Known as the Culebra Cut excavation involved moving close to 100 million cubic yards of rock and soil.