2nd canal through Columbia?

[Jimbo808]

How would a canal through Columbia linking the Caribbean and Pacific be built. Would it be feasible for this to be built the the late 20h century, and what effect would it have in the world and Columbian economies?

 

[jlckansas]

Where in Columbia and what route would it take? I would imagine it would be like the Nicaragua canal, nice idea but lots of obstacles to it being built.

 

[Nivek]

Where in Columbia and what route would it take? I would imagine it would be like the Nicaragua canal, nice idea but lots of obstacles to it being built.

Atrato River https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrato_River https://www.stockholmresilience.org...-river-colombia-using-sar-interferometry.html https://erdc-library.erdc.dren.mil/jspui/handle/11681/1811

 

[Dathi THorfinnsson]

Of course there WAS canal through Colombia. The US just split some of it off.....

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[Merrick]

Atrato River https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrato_River https://www.stockholmresilience.org...-river-colombia-using-sar-interferometry.html https://erdc-library.erdc.dren.mil/jspui/handle/11681/1811

At least the Nicaragua route is decently flat. If you go up the Atrato, you're going to have to cut through the coastal range to get to the Pacific. Even that valleys look to be around 200m above sea--level - and that part of Colombia is very remote and unsettled, even today.