The U.S. government hands control of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal" id="mwAXM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Panama Canal">Panama Canal</a> (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal_Zone" id="mwAXQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Panama Canal Zone">Panama Canal Zone</a>) to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama" id="mwAXU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Panama">Panama</a>. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrijos–Carter_Treaties" id="mwAXY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Torrijos–Carter Treaties">Torrijos–Carter Treaties</a>.