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The Isthmus of Tehuantepec is the region with the shortest distance between the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. Before the Panama Canal's completion, it was the major route when shipping goods from the Atlantic to Pacific and after the Gadsden Purchase American investors starting taking serious looks at the region when considering a canal. Eventually it was decided that the area was less preferable to canal building then Nicaragua and Panama, and a railroad was built instead. Your Challenge is to find a way for the Isthmus of Tehuantepec to harbor a canal widely used by the industrial nations of the world.