Trade routes have unsurprisingly played an important role in the economy and history of the world: thanks to them we discovered, for example, that the world was round. Furthermore, this discovery is the result of a chance encounter with the Americas, while traveling from Europe to Asia. While the New World became the destination of important trade in the following centuries, new trade routes to Asia were still being sought. Ultimately, finding a route that could connect the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean was critical, especially during the gold rush period when many people wanted to get to California. Therefore, in the early 1900s, a canal was built in Panama, finally connecting the two oceans, thus improving world trade, as it shortened shipping routes and lowered transportation costs. Before the construction of this canal, however, many countries debated whether it should be built in Panama or Nicaragua, but, for a variety of reasons, Panama was chosen. Now, one hundred years later, a Chinese company has offered to build the canal project for Nicaragua. Despite the futile attempts made in the past to realize this project, the Nicaragua Canal is now actually feasible and would undoubtedly help the Nicaraguan economy; however, critics have noted that the unreliability and potential problems, such as damage to the environment, in building the canal would ultimately outweigh the benefits it would bring. Before the construction of the Panama Canal, an attempt was made to build a canal through Nicaragua. Nicaragua has almost perfect conditions to build an interoceanic canal: large, deep lake 100 feet above sea level, large navigable waterway connecting the lake with the Atlantic Ocean (Ha...... half of the paper ..... .to the feasible, citing its confidentiality policies (Cordoba). Furthermore, the increase in traffic due to the growth of world trade is extremely speculative (Cave). to HKND the right to build the canal in Nicaragua is not possible already signed, all this before new feasibility studies were done, which should be done within two years (Alvarez, Pedro Alvarez, a Nicaraguan doctor in Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan, has strongly questioned the reliability) of the HKND; stresses that the canal must be built on the basis of serious studies, which according to him are not adequately done regarding the environmental impact of the canal; two years could be enough to claim its feasibility and study from an economic point of view, but not long enough to study the environmental effect of the canal.