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The single-step Pedro Miguel locks have a lift of 31 ft (9.4 m). The lift at Miraflores actually varies due to the extreme tides on the Pacific side, between 43 ft (13 m) at extreme high tide and 64.5 ft (20 m) at extreme low tide; tidal differences on the Atlantic side are very small.
The single-stage Pedro Miguel Lock, which is 1.4 km (7 ⁄ 8 mi) long, is the first part of the descent with a lift of 9.4 m (31 ft). The artificial Miraflores Lake 1.8 km (1 + 1 ⁄ 8 mi) long, and 16 m (54 ft) above sea level. The two-stage Miraflores Locks is 1.8 km (1 + 1 ⁄ 8 mi) long, with a total descent of 16 m (54 ft) at mid-tide.
A Neopanamax ship passes through the Panama Canal's Agua Clara lock in 2019. The Atlantic Bridge is seen in the background.. The Panama Canal expansion project (Spanish: 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 ...
Miraflores (Panama) Miraflores is the name of one of the three locks that form part of the Panama Canal, and the name of the small lake that separates these locks from the Pedro Miguel Locks upstream. In the Miraflores locks, vessels are lifted (or lowered) 54 feet (16.5 m) in two stages, allowing them to transit to or from the Pacific Ocean ...
English: 24 hour time-lapse of the upper chamber of the Miraflores Locks, Panama Canal, Panama. Looking north to the Pedro Miguel Locks and Centennial Bridge. Image every 30 seconds from 12.Nov.2012, 12:00 until 13.Nov.2012, 12:00. These 2880 images are displayed at 24 frames per second, video length 2 minutes.
The new locks would add a traffic lane to the canal, with each chamber 1,200 ft (365.76 m) long, 140 ft (42.67 m) wide and 45 ft (13.72 m) deep. They would be 1 ⁄ 2 mi (805 m) east of the existing Gatún locks and 1 ⁄ 4 mi (402 m) west of the Pedro Miguel and Miraflores locks.
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The Centennial Bridge is located 15 km (9.3 mi) north of the Bridge of the Americas and crosses the Culebra Cut (Gaillard Cut) close to the Pedro Miguel locks. New freeway sections, connecting Arraijan in the west to Cerro Patacon in the east via the bridge, significantly alleviate congestion on the Bridge of the Americas .