In 1867, he negotiated a Treaty with Nicaragua (on-line copy; 13 pages), at a time when the Nicaragua Canal was still being seriously considered to be built.

Plans were made to take advantage of this route to build an interoceanic canal, the Nicaragua Canal, but the Panama Canal was built instead.

It was negotiated in response to attempts to build the Nicaragua Canal, a canal in Nicaragua that would connect the Pacific and the Atlantic.

Marines returned to occupy Nicaragua from 1912-1933 in order to prevent the construction of the Nicaragua Canal without American control.

See also: Panama Canal, Nicaragua Canal.

It was part, with the lake, of a proposed route for a Nicaragua Canal in the 19th century.

For the historical inter-oceanic canal, see Nicaragua Canal.

The following year, he investigated the possibility of a transoceanic canal and became a proponent of the Nicaragua Canal.

Historically, the possibility that the Río San Juan might become the route for a Nicaragua Canal has exacerbated the dispute.

The steamboats' course went up the San Juan River, a site that had been proposed for the Nicaragua Canal, Chiong wrote: