Talk:Panama Canal

Total length: 82 km in lead/infobox vs ~80 km (50 mi) in layout breakdown

The infobox lists Template:Para and the lead opens: "The Panama Canal ... is an artificial Template:Convert waterway." But the navigation-layout section, after walking through the component segments (sea-level approaches, Gatun lake transit, lock chambers, etc.), concludes: "Thus, the total length of the canal is Template:Cvt."

50 statute miles ≈ 80.47 km, not 82 km. That's a ~1.5 km gap that exceeds any reasonable rounding. The component-by-component breakdown that produces "50 mi" cannot be reconciled with the headline 82 km figure unless one of them is wrong, or unless the two are measuring different things (e.g. total navigable distance vs. canal-proper between specific endpoints) — which the article doesn't say. The lead/infobox figure and the breakdown should be conformed, and the chosen endpoints stated. Rome (talk) 01:01, 5 May 2026 (UTC)