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Gatun Lake

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Ga·tún Lake  (g-tn, gä-)
An artificial lake of central Panama formed by the impounding of the Chagres River. It is a major link in the Panama Canal system.


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This special itinerary features cruising from and back to Florida, a day in Costa Rica, exciting Caribbean ports (Aruba, Curacao and Half Moon Cay) plus a full day cruising the Panama Canal and Gatun Lake.
After the third lock, we sailed into Gatun Lake, where numerous freighters were at anchor awaiting their turn.
When Goethals and his engineers flooded an area the size of Barbados to form Gatun Lake, across which the canal passes for half its length, the species of this area could only flee to mountaintops that soon became islands.
 
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