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Across
  1. 2. Large vessels can ____ the Rio Tuira.
  2. 5. ____ ____ and other diseases killed thousands of workers.
  3. 8. The French ____ to build a canal failed.
  4. 9. The highest point in Panama is an ____ volcano named Volcan Baru.
  5. 11. The first ___ went through the Panama Canal on August 15, 1914.
  6. 12. The U.S.____ Corps of Engineers constructed the Panama Canal.
  7. 13. ____ Lake is a major part of the Panama Canal.
  8. 14. Panama declared its independence from ____ on November 3, 1903.
Down
  1. 1. Water from the ____ ____ filled Gatun Lake.
  2. 3. The United States began ____ control of the Panama Canal back to Panama.
  3. 4. Some of Panama's rivers are dammed to produce ____ power.
  4. 6. the_____ of Panama is the narrow part of the land that connects North and South America.
  5. 7. By the end of the ____ century, full control of the Panama Canal was turned over to Panama.
  6. 10. ____ City, the capital, gets about half the rainfall of Colón.
  7. 11. With a canal through Panama, ships could avoid the long trip around _____ America.