Archive for October, 2006
Amador Causeway-Panama City’s pride and joy
One of the most precious assets which reverted to Panama along with the canal when the U.S. pulled out at the end of 1999 was the Amador Causeway which flanks the channel leading into the Pacific entrance to the canal, and joins four small islands, Flamenco, Perico, Culebra and Naos.
Designed as a huge breakwater to protect the entrance to the Canal and prevent sedimentation in the Port of Balboa, the causeway was built with a million and a quarter cubic yards of rock from the excavation of Culebra Cut. It also served as a fortification. Just as the Spaniards had pointed their cannons seaward a few centuries before on the walls of Las Bovedas across the bay, the Americans, during the two world wars, installed ordinance on the causeway islands to make it the most powerful defense complex the world had seen.
The causeway had yet another purpose. Read more
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