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In the America's with David Yetman
Panama: A City and a Canal
Season 2
Episode 207
Panama City has been a pivotal shipping port for hundreds of years over water and over land. Today it has become an economic powerhouse, the Hong Kong of the Americas, thanks to its booming canal. But the canal cannot function without the services provided by the huge rainforest that envelopes it.
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