The Chagres River (Spanish pronunciation:[ˈtʃaɣɾes]), in central Panama, is the largest river in the Panama Canal's watershed.[2] The river is dammed twice, and the resulting reservoirs—Gatun Lake and Lake Alajuela—form an integral part of the canal and its water system. Although the river's natural course runs northwest to its mouth at the Caribbean Sea, its waters also flow, via the canal's locks, into the Gulf of Panama to the south. The Chagres thus has the unusual claim of drainage into two oceans.
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commissioned a study into the possibility of building a railway from Chagres (on the ChagresRiver) to the town of Panama City. This study was carried out between...
water lake 26 meters (85 ft) above sea level, created by damming up the ChagresRiver and Lake Alajuela to reduce the amount of excavation work required for...
operating levels in the next six months. Created in 1913 by damming the ChagresRiver, Gatun Lake is a key part of the Panama Canal, providing the millions...
The Gatun Dam is an earthen dam across the ChagresRiver in Panama, near the town of Gatun. The dam, constructed between 1907 and 1913, is a crucial element...
a set of rivers which provide sufficient water to guarantee the operation of the Gatun Lake, main lake of the Panama Canal: the ChagresRiver and the Gatun...
down-river to the Atlantic Ocean at Chagres (or vice versa). In the dry season, the river subsided, and travellers would switch from land to the river a...
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mail contract from East Coast cities and New Orleans to and from the ChagresRiver in Panama was won by the United States Mail Steamship Company whose...
miles (12.6 km) from the Pedro Miguel lock on the Pacific side to the ChagresRiver arm of Lake Gatun, with a water level 85 feet (26 m) above sea level...
Lake Alajuela (Spanish: Lago Alajuela) is an artificial lake in the ChagresRiver basin. The lake is bounded by the Madden Dam and linked to the Panama...
the ChagresRiver, with channels to drain water away from the canal. However, the Gamboa dam was later found impracticable and the ChagresRiver problem...
Madden Dam, completed in 1935, impounds the ChagresRiver in Panama to form Lake Alajuela, a reservoir that is an essential part of the Panama Canal watershed...
Chagres (ChagresRiver), located in central Panama, is one of the few wide rivers and a source of hydroelectric power. The central part of the river is...
Gatún Dam, ChagresRiver, hydroelectric power (22.5 MW), spillway Gatún Lake Gatún River, causeway, Monte Lirio railway bridge Gamboa ChagresRiver, Madden...
Gatún Dam, ChagresRiver, hydroelectric power (22.5 MW), spillway Gatún Lake Gatún River, causeway, Monte Lirio railway bridge Gamboa ChagresRiver, Madden...
mouth of the ChagresRiver. The sandstone is so massive that estimates of thickness are uncertain. Various fossils have been found in the Chagres Formation:...
middle of the Panama Canal. The island was formed when the waters of the ChagresRiver were dammed to form the lake in 1913. When the waters rose, they covered...
eastward from upper Central America, explored Bocas del Toro, Veragua, the ChagresRiver and Portobelo (Beautiful Port) which he named. Soon Spanish expeditions...
were soon running from the east coast cities to the ChagresRiver in Panama and the San Juan River in Nicaragua. By the mid-1850s there were over ten Pacific...
Aubert (2015). Federico Romanis; Marco Maiuro (eds.). "Trajan's Canal: River Navigation from the Nile to the Red Sea?". Across the Ocean: Nine Essays...
Chagres is a most useful friend." (p. 366) Topics include: "Topography of the Basin above Bohio"; "Regimen of the Chagres"; "Discharge of the Chagres";...
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