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Chagres River, the Glossary

The Chagres River, in central Panama, is the largest river in the Panama Canal's watershed.^[1]

28 relations: Amazon River, Barro Colorado Island, Caribbean Sea, Chagres and Fort San Lorenzo, Chagres National Park, Colón Province, Dam, Drainage basin, Gatun Dam, Gatun Lake, Gulf of Panama, Henry Morgan, Henry Morgan's Panama expedition, Lake Alajuela, Madden Dam, Orinoco, Panama, Panama Canal, Panama Canal locks, Panama City, Panama Province, Peacock bass, Reservoir, Rinehart & Company, Rio Negro (Amazon), River bifurcation, Rivers of America Series, Smithsonian Institution.
Drainage basins of the Atlantic Ocean
Panamanian coasts of the Caribbean Sea
Rivers of Panama

Amazon River

The Amazon River (Río Amazonas, Rio Amazonas) in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and the longest or second-longest river system in the world, a title which is disputed with the Nile. The headwaters of the Apurímac River on Nevado Mismi had been considered for nearly a century the Amazon basin's most distant source until a 2014 study found it to be the headwaters of the Mantaro River on the Cordillera Rumi Cruz in Peru.

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Barro Colorado Island

Barro Colorado Island is located in the man-made Gatun Lake in the middle of the Panama Canal.

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Caribbean Sea

The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere.

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Chagres and Fort San Lorenzo

Chagres, once the chief Atlantic port on the isthmus of Panama, is now an abandoned village at the historical site of Fort San Lorenzo (Fuerte de San Lorenzo).

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Chagres National Park

The Chagres National Park is a nature park and protected area created in 1986 located between the Province of Panama and Colon, in the Eastern sector of the Panama Canal with a total surface area of.

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Colón Province

Colón is a province of Panama.

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Dam

A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of surface water or underground streams.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean.

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Gatun Dam

The Gatun Dam is an earthen dam across the Chagres River in Panama, near the town of Gatun. Chagres River and Gatun Dam are Panama Canal.

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Gatun Lake

Gatun Lake (Lago Gatún) is a freshwater artificial lake to the south of Colón, Panama. Chagres River and Gatun Lake are Panama Canal.

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Gulf of Panama

The Gulf of Panama (Golfo de Panamá) is a gulf of the Pacific Ocean off the southern coast of Panama, where most of eastern Panama's southern shores adjoin it.

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Henry Morgan

Sir Henry Morgan (Harri Morgan; – 25 August 1688) was a Welsh privateer, plantation owner, and, later, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica.

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Henry Morgan's Panama expedition

Henry Morgan's Panama expedition also known as the Sack of Panama, was an expedition that took place between 16 December 1670 and 5 March 1671 during the later stage of the Anglo-Spanish War.

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Lake Alajuela

Lake Alajuela (Lago Alajuela) is an artificial lake in the Chagres River basin. The lake is bounded by the Madden Dam and linked to the Panama Canal. Lake Alajuela serves as a reservoir for the canal, which lies to the lake's southwest. It was created in 1935 by damming up the Madden River. The Chagres, Pequení, Boquerón, Salamanca, La Puente, Indio, Piedras, San Cristóbal and Escandaloso rivers flow into the lake.

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Madden Dam

Madden Dam, completed in 1935, impounds the Chagres River in Panama to form Lake Alajuela, a reservoir that is an essential part of the Panama Canal watershed. Chagres River and Madden Dam are Panama Canal.

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Orinoco

The Orinoco is one of the longest rivers in South America at. Its drainage basin, sometimes known as the Orinoquia, covers ca 1 million km2, with 65% of it in Venezuela and the 35% in Colombia. It is the fourth largest river in the world by discharge volume of water. The nevertheless high volume flow (39,000 m3/s at delta) of the Orinoco can be explained by the high precipitation in almost the entire catchment area (ca 2,300 mm/a).

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Panama

Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America.

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Panama Canal

The Panama Canal (Canal de Panamá) is an artificial waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean, cutting across the Isthmus of Panama, and is a conduit for maritime trade. Chagres River and Panama Canal are Panamanian coasts of the Caribbean Sea.

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Panama Canal locks

The Panama Canal locks (Esclusas del Canal de Panamá) are a lock system that lifts ships up to the main elevation of the Panama Canal and down again. Chagres River and Panama Canal locks are Panama Canal.

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Panama City

Panama City, also known as Panama (or Panamá in Spanish), is the capital and largest city of Panama.

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Panama Province

Panama (Panamá) is a province of Panama.

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Peacock bass

Peacock bass or Brazilian tucunaré are large freshwater cichlids of the genus Cichla.

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Reservoir

A reservoir is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation.

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Rinehart & Company

Rinehart & Company was an American publishing company founded in 1946.

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Rio Negro (Amazon)

The Rio Negro (br; Río Negro "Black River"), or Guainía as it is known in its upper part, is the largest left tributary of the Amazon River (accounting for about 14% of the water in the Amazon basin), the largest blackwater river in the world, and one of the world's ten largest rivers by average discharge.

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River bifurcation

River bifurcation (from furca, fork) occurs when a river (a bifurcating river) flowing in a single channel separates into two or more separate streams (called ''distributaries'') which then continue downstream.

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Rivers of America Series

The Rivers of America Series is a landmark series of books on American rivers, for the most part written by literary figures rather than historians.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagres_River

Also known as Río Chagres.