The Darien Mandingo Canal: the Most Feasible Sea-level Route
American Isthmus Ship Canal Company - 1905 - 10 pages
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In the mid 1800's New York tycoon Frederick M. Kelly sponsored
four
expeditions to find the sea level pass between the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans. On the fourth of such explorations, in 1854, Welsh Civil
Engineer and Capitan William Kennish found the Atrato-Truandó waterway. The
starting point was at 7° N in the Pacific, across the Baudó range, connecting the
Truandó and Atrato rivers to the Golf of Urabá.
The length of this waterway is 106 miles: 16 miles to the Baudó
mountain, 34 miles of the Truandó river and 57 miles of the Atrato River (5.000
sq m/sec). Kennish proposed two tunnels
3 miles long to cross the Baudó mountain range.
This is the only place a sea level canal can be dug for 250.000
ton ships.
We hope an international corporation and the Government of
Colombia will soon begin the first drafts of the sea level canal
which could take ten years to complete.
Jupiter, Florida October 14, 2013
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