The Darien Mandingo Canal

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