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The park stretches along the right bank of Saigon River from the Saigon River Tunnel to Ba Son Bridge, opposite to Bạch Đằng Quay park on the left bank. [2] There are plans to extend the park from the Ba Son Bridge to the Thu Thiem Bridge, the extend section is called Creative Park (Công viên Sáng Tạo). [3] [4] [5]
Saigon River is joined, southeast of downtown Ho Chi Minh City (formerly named Saigon) by the Đồng Nai River. The river is important to Ho Chi Minh City as it is the main water supply as well as the host of Saigon Port, with a total cargo volume loaded and outloaded of more than 35 million metric tons in 2006.
The Nhieu Loc–Thi Nghe Channel (Vietnamese: Kênh Nhiêu Lộc – Thị Nghè) is a waterway in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. [1] [2] The 9 km (6-mile) long canal passes through the districts of 1, 3, Phú Nhuận, Tân Bình and Bình Thạnh and flows into the confluence of Văn Thánh Canal and Saigon River at where used to be the Saigon Naval Shipyard.
According to scholar Pétrus Ký, the waterfront area at the end of rue Catinat was once called Bến Ngự (translating to "royal wharf"), the royal landing stage. He also revealed that it was known in Khmer as Compong-luong, [3] which suggests that its history may date back to the 17th century, when Saigon was still the Cambodian settlement of Prey Nokor.
The Saigon River Tunnel, more popular in Vietnam as the Thu Thiem Tunnel is an underwater tunnel that opened on November 20, 2011. [2] It runs underneath the Saigon River in Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city of Vietnam. The tunnel was built with capital from JICA's ODA, in conjunction with a consortium of Japanese contractors.
[3] [4] The lake is located 20 km northeast of Tây Ninh city and 70 km north of Ho Chi Minh City. [5] Formed by damming the upper reaches of the Saigon River, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] its main purpose is to regulate water flow into the Saigon River and provide irrigation for over 100,000 hectares of agricultural land in Tây Ninh and neighboring provinces ...
[1] [2] The bridge crosses the Saigon River to link District 1 and Thu Duc City. [3] [4] The bridge was named after the former historical Ba Son Shipyard next to the bridge, now known as the Ba Son Complex. Ba Son Station on the Ho Chi Minh City Metro Line 1 near the bridge in District 1 on 22 December 2024. [5]
Saigon 2 Bridge (Cầu Sài Gòn 2) is a bridge crossing the Saigon River, connecting Bình Thạnh District and District 2, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on the Hanoi Highway. It is parallel to the Saigon Bridge, being 3 metres south of it and carrying traffic in the eastern direction.