Attempts to build a canal across Nicaragua to connect the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean stretch back to the early colonial era. Construction of such a shipping route—using the San Juan River as an access route to Lake Nicaragua —was first proposed then. Napoleon III wrote an article about its feasibility in the middle of the 19th century.

The Nicaraguan Canal and Development Project, informally the Nicaragua Canal (Spanish: Canal de Nicaragua, also referred to as the Nicaragua Grand Canal, or the Grand Interoceanic Canal) was a proposed shipping route through Nicaragua to connect the Caribbean Sea (and therefore the Atlantic Ocean) with the Pacific Ocean.

When construction crews begin digging a new canal this month across Nicaragua, connecting the Pacific and Atlantic, it’ll be a boon to global shipping and, the government says, to the economy of...

May 8, 2024 · After nearly a decade, Nicaragua’s congress has finally canceled a controversial canal concession granted to a Chinese businessman that critics said endangered the environment and threatened to displace rural communities.

Dec 6, 2024 · The new Nicaragua Canal project will have a length of 445 kilometers, joining the Atlantic deep-water port of Bluefields, in the Autonomous Region of the Southern Caribbean, with the Pacific port of Corinto, in the department of Chinandega.

Nov 18, 2024 · On Monday, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega offered China the proposal to construct an interoceanic canal through the Central American country, this time with a new route. Instead of crossing the Great Lake, or Lake Cocibolca, the canal would pass through Lake Xolotlan, also known as Lake Managua.

May 9, 2024 · Nicaragua’s plan to build a waterway rivalling Panama Canal was inaugurated in 2014. The project, backed by a Chinese businessman, was cancelled on Wednesday- after a decade of controversy and no work.

Nov 19, 2024 · Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Monday launched the blueprints for a 445-kilometer long canal through his country linking the Caribbean SSea with the Pacific Ocean, which would be an ...

Feb 26, 2015 · Nicaragua has enlisted a little-known Chinese billionaire to dig a 161-mile canal across the country and link the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. If built, the Nicaragua Canal would be longer,...

Apr 24, 2015 · Nicaragua’s canal, which would connect the Pacific to the Atlantic through Lake Nicaragua, would be one of the largest man-made commercial waterways in the world.