What is the difference between panama conduit and suez conduit?
Answers: Other than the Suez Canal being surrounded by Egypt and the Panama Canal being surrounded by Panama, in Central America, the big difference is that The Suez Canal is a "ocean level" canal. There are no locks. Ships can travel right through.
The Panama Canal has locks. These locks make higher the ship to cross the isthmus and then lower it on the other side.
There is one set of locks surrounded by Colon on the Caribbean sea. Another set of lock is close to the middle of the isthmus and another set of locks close to Panama City in close proximity the Pacific.
Ferdinand de Lesseps, the French man who built the Suez Canal tried to build a sea even canal contained by Panama and failed. Everyone told him it wouldn't work but he didn't listen.
Finally, the Panama Canal, on the compass, go from North West to South East. The Suez is pretty much north to south.
Location. Panama Canal is in Middle America and Suez Canal is within Middle East.
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