For the curious traveler contemplating a trip to Panama — also home to rainforests, deserts, volcanoes and more than 1,600 islands — here’s CNN Travel’s guide to how to visit the canal.

The Panama Canal changed global trade forever, but its creation came at a staggering human cost. Over 400 years of failed attempts, deadly tropical diseases, and engineering challenges turned this ...

The Panama Canal's impact on the geopolitical stage far outreaches its roughly 51-mile stretch of land and water. This week, we're trying to understand the canal's murky future - from climate ...

Donald Trump claim: Panama Canal construction left 38,000 Americans dead “The United States, I mean think of this, spent more money than ever spent on a project before and lost 38,000 lives in ...

Roosevelt believed the construction of the canal would be one of the nation's greatest achievements: “To my mind this building of the canal through Panama will rank in kind, though not of course ...

It was these migrants who paid for the construction of the canal with their lives — some 5,000 to 8,000 individuals, by historians’ estimates. It’s unclear how Trump arrived at the 38,000 ...

Donald Trump claim: Panama Canal construction left 38,000 Americans dead “The United States, I mean think of this, spent more money than ever spent on a project before and lost 38,000 lives in ...

Donald Trump claim: Panama Canal construction left 38,000 Americans dead “The United States, I mean think of this, spent more money than ever spent on a project before and lost 38,000 lives in ...