Long Before the Canal, Global Trade Built Panama City
The narrow geography of the 50-mile Central American isthmus made it an obvious choice for trade routes between the Atlantic and Pacific.
(Illustration: The Isthmus of Panama on the Height of the Chagres River (1850), Charles Christian Nahl; Wikimedia)
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This article originally appeared in print under the headline "Panama City: Made by Trade."
