The Pannerdens Kanaal (Pannerden Canal) is a
canal
Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface ...
in the
Netherlands
, Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...
that was dredged between 1701 and 1709 to cut off a large, shallow bend of the
river
A river is a natural stream of fresh water that flows on land or inside Subterranean river, caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river. A river may run dry before reaching the end of ...
Rhine
The Rhine ( ) is one of the List of rivers of Europe, major rivers in Europe. The river begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps. It forms part of the Swiss-Liechtenstein border, then part of the Austria–Swit ...
for improving river traffic and water regulation.
The canal, now indistinguishable from a "real" river, forks off north from the river Waal a few kilometres past the point where the
Bijlands Kanaal, a similar canal dug to cut off a Waal bend, ends. It flows past the towns of
Pannerden (right bank), which gives the canal its name, and
Angeren (left bank) and so north to the point where the old Rhine bend flows into it and the river continues to the
sea
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as the
Nederrijn (Lower Rhine). The old Rhine bend, cut off at its
upstream end, still exists and is called, unsurprisingly,
Oude Rijn (Old Rhine).
Canals in the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta
Canals opened in 1709
1709 establishments in the Dutch Republic
Canals in the Netherlands
Canals in Gelderland
Lingewaard
Zevenaar
18th-century architecture in the Netherlands
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