The Sint-Jansbeek () is a
stream
A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a strea ...
in
Arnhem
Arnhem ( ; ; Central Dutch dialects, Ernems: ''Èrnem'') is a Cities of the Netherlands, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality situated in the eastern part of the Netherlands, near the German border. It is the capita ...
, which streams down from the hills of
Zijpendaal through the
Sonsbeek park and the inner city of Arnhem to the river
Rhine
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. The Sint-Jansbeek has always been an open stream, but the part in the inner city is covered since the city
moat
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s were filled in the 19th century. The stream from the source in Zijpendaal through the park Sonsbeek is still open.
Arnhem
Rivers of Gelderland
Rivers of the Netherlands
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