Gaillard Cut

Also called Culebra Cut, Spanish  Corte De Culebra,   artificial channel in Panama forming a part of the Panama Canal. It is an excavated gorge, approximately 8 miles (13 km) long, across the Continental Divide. It is named for David du Bose Gaillard, the American engineer who planned its construction. Overflow from the Chagres River, which is dammed at Gatun to form Gatun Lake at the north end of the cut, is guided past Gamboa into