Articles of category "Panama"

City Panama is the capital of Panama, a country in Central America. Located on the sprout of northwest Florida on beautiful St. Andrew's Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, Panama City is known as a popular tourist location famous for year round comfortable climate and friendly atmosphere. Prominent places of interest borne by bright diversity of Panamanian culture, and seemingly omnipresent sea will never let you be bored.

Due to advantageous geographic location Panama presents interesting options for everyone. Beautiful mountains, rivers, tropical rainforests provide an excellent quiet retreat from a bustling city life. Coastal areas dispose of seemingly the best beaches in the world and provide perfect conditions for water rest: fishing, scuba diving, and snorkeling. One of the country's most eminent phenomena is the Panama Canal well-known as a busy route from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. This article will shed light on the history of the Canal construction, which lasted for over seven years and took almost 28,000 lives of workers, and prove the validity of so a terrible sacrifice.