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Chagres

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Cha·gres  (chägrs)
A river rising in central Panama, flowing southwest to Gatún Lake (formed by a dam on the river), then draining northwest to the Caribbean Sea.
Chagres (Spanish) [ˈtʃaγres]
n
(Placename) a river in Panama, flowing southwest through Gatún Lake, then northwest to the Caribbean Sea
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Yet onwards we sped - down the Chagres River and into the Gatun Lake, which feeds that marvel of engineering joining North and South America: the Panama Canal.
Travel: Monkeying around between showers; Laura Silverman takes on ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
The Chagres River, one of the few rivers to flow into both the Atlantic and the Pacific, was dammed and the huge Gatun Lake formed 85 feet above sea level.
Reflections on plans to widen the Panama Canal by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
The Chagres River Dam created the reservoir of Gatun Lake in order to provide more water to the Panama Canal.
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