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by Pat Alvarado (Author), Silvia Fernández-Risco (Illustrator)
El 15 de agosto de 1914, cuatrocientos un a os desde que Balboa y sus hombres cortaran un pasaje por el Dari n, el S.S. Anc n cruz el Istmo de Panam del oc ano Atl ntico al Pac fico. El viaje tom un poco m s de nueve horas con cuarenta minutos y todo march viento en popa. Aqu est n los detalles de ese viaje hist rico. Relato biling e en espa ol e ingl s. Aprobado por el Ministerio de Panam como texto complementario para el uso en el sal n de clases. On August 15, 1914, four hundred one years since Balboa and his men cut their way through the Darien, the S.S. Ancon crossed the Isthmus of Panama from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. The trip took just over nine hours and forty minutes, and she did it without a hitch. Here are the details of that historic voyage. Bilingual story in Spanish and English. Approved by Panama's Ministry of Education as a complementary text for use in the classroom.
