Ecocanal, the Glossary
The Nicaraguan Ecocanal was a proposed project in Nicaragua to build a shallow-draft waterway connecting the inland Lake Nicaragua with the Caribbean Sea via the San Juan River in the south of the country.[1]
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17 relations: Attempts to build a canal across Nicaragua, Barge, Caribbean Sea, Costa Rica, Draft (hull), Honduras, Lake Nicaragua, Limón, Lock (water navigation), Nicaragua, Panama Canal, Panama Canal expansion project, Puerto Cortés, Pusher (boat), San Juan River (Nicaragua), Transshipment, Twenty-foot equivalent unit.
- Canals in Nicaragua
- International canals
- Proposed canals
- Proposed transport infrastructure in Nicaragua
- Transport in Nicaragua
Attempts to build a canal across Nicaragua
Attempts to build a canal across Nicaragua to connect the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean stretch back to the early colonial era. Ecocanal and Attempts to build a canal across Nicaragua are canals in Nicaragua.
See Ecocanal and Attempts to build a canal across Nicaragua
Barge
Barge often refers to a flat-bottomed inland waterway vessel which does not have its own means of mechanical propulsion.
Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere.
See Ecocanal and Caribbean Sea
Costa Rica
Costa Rica (literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in the Central American region of North America.
Draft (hull)
The draft or draught of a ship is a determined depth of the vessel below the waterline, measured vertically to its hull's lowest—its propellers, or keel, or other reference point.
Honduras
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America.
Lake Nicaragua
Lake Nicaragua or Cocibolca or Granada (Lago de Nicaragua, Lago Cocibolca, Mar Dulce, Gran Lago, Gran Lago Dulce, or Lago de Granada) is a freshwater lake in Nicaragua.
See Ecocanal and Lake Nicaragua
Limón
Limón, commonly known as Puerto Limón (Port Lemon in English), is a district, the capital city and main hub of Limón Province, as well as of the Limón canton in Costa Rica.
Lock (water navigation)
A lock is a device used for raising and lowering boats, ships and other watercraft between stretches of water of different levels on river and canal waterways.
See Ecocanal and Lock (water navigation)
Nicaragua
Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest country in Central America, comprising.
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.
Panama Canal expansion project
The Panama Canal expansion project (ampliación del Canal de Panamá), also called the Third Set of Locks Project, doubled the capacity of the Panama Canal by adding a new traffic lane, enabling more ships to transit the waterway, and increasing the width and depth of the lanes and locks, allowing larger ships to pass.
See Ecocanal and Panama Canal expansion project
Puerto Cortés
Puerto Cortés, originally known as Puerto de Caballos, is a port city and municipality on the north Caribbean coast of Honduras, right on the Laguna de Alvarado, north of San Pedro Sula and east of Omoa, with a natural bay.
See Ecocanal and Puerto Cortés
Pusher (boat)
A pusher, pusher craft, pusher boat, pusher tug, or towboat, is a boat designed for pushing barges or car floats.
See Ecocanal and Pusher (boat)
San Juan River (Nicaragua)
The San Juan River (Spanish: Río San Juan), also known as El Desaguadero ("the drain"), is a river that flows east out of Lake Nicaragua into the Caribbean Sea.
See Ecocanal and San Juan River (Nicaragua)
Transshipment
Transshipment, trans-shipment or transhipment is the shipment of goods or containers to an intermediate destination, then to another destination.
See Ecocanal and Transshipment
The twenty-foot equivalent unit (abbreviated TEU or teu) is a general unit of cargo capacity, often used for container ships and container ports.
See Ecocanal and Twenty-foot equivalent unit
See also
Canals in Nicaragua
- Attempts to build a canal across Nicaragua
- Ecocanal
- HK Nicaragua Canal Development Investment
- Nicaraguan Canal and Development Project
International canals
- Augustów Canal
- Barcelona Convention and Statute on the Regime of Navigable Waterways of International Concern
- Bruges–Ostend Canal
- Damme Canal
- Danube–Oder Canal
- Ecocanal
- Ghent–Terneuzen Canal
- Lake Champlain Seaway
- List of interoceanic canals
- List of transcontinental canals
- Ludwig Canal
- Pan-European Corridor VII
- Rhine–Main–Danube Canal
- Scheldt–Rhine Canal
- Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project
- Shannon–Erne Waterway
- St. Lawrence Seaway
- United States Senate Committee on Interoceanic Canals
Proposed canals
- Berks and Hants Canal
- Danube–Oder Canal
- Ecocanal
- Eurasia Canal
- Funan Techo Canal
- Galeru Nagari Sujala Sravanthi Project
- Grand Contour Canal
- Grand Korean Waterway
- Iranrud
- Istanbul Canal
- Isthmus of Tehuantepec
- Jonglei Canal
- Kola Canal
- Lake Chad replenishment project
- List of proposed canals
- Manych Ship Canal
- Mediterranean–Dead Sea Canal
- Nicaraguan Canal and Development Project
- North American Water and Power Alliance
- Northern river reversal
- Pechora–Kama Canal
- Portages of New Zealand
- Red Sea–Dead Sea Water Conveyance
- Sahara Sea
- Salwa Canal
- Seine–Nord Europe Canal
- Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project
- South–North Water Transfer Project
- Sulawesi Canal
- Tamirabarani–Nambiar Link Canal
- Thai Canal
- Transcaspian Canal
Proposed transport infrastructure in Nicaragua
- Ecocanal