For centuries, Panama served as a natural bridge for global trade. Mule trains hauled treasure over stone-paved trails, ...

A novel laboratory has been created in the Canal Zone. When the Canal was built, Gatun Dam was erected across the valley of the Chagres River. The result was the creation of not only a deep-water ...

Digna Benite (center) calls her village of Limón de Chagres, a land made of love. Digna Benite stands on the banks of the calm Río Indio and recalls playing in the water while her father fished. “This ...

SAN MARCOS, Texas -- A team of researchers led by a Texas State University faculty member has identified a sunken shipwreck buried in the sand off the coast of Panama near the mouth of the Chagres ...

It may not be a $500 million golden hoard, but underwater archaeologists are nevertheless excited about finding what they believe are traces of the five ships that British privateer Henry Morgan lost ...

Humans have manipulated and managed rivers with dams for millennia. The number of river dam projects is predicted to rise sharply in the future, especially in the tropics where demand for ...

On February 1, 1881, driven by patriotic fervor and capitalized by over 100,000 mostly small investors, the French Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocéanique began work on a canal that would cross ...