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Vivari Channel in Albania links Lake Butrint with the Straits of Corfu. In physical geography and hydrology, a channel is a landform on which a relatively narrow body of water is situated, such as a river, river delta or strait. While channel typically refers to a natural formation, the cognate term canal denotes a similar artificial structure.
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 flow under atmospheric pressure , and can be thought of as artificial rivers .
A navigable artificial water channel, usually built as a conduit for human activity. canebrake. Also canebreak. A dense thicket of giant cane grasses, often lining a riverbank or other body of water. The term is used primarily in the southeastern United States. canyon. Also gorge or cañon.
The first whitewater slalom race took place on the Aar River in Switzerland in 1933. [1] The early slalom courses were all set in natural rivers, but when whitewater slalom became an Olympic sport for the first time, at the 1972 Munich Games, the venue was the world's first concrete-channel artificial whitewater course, the Eiskanal in Augsburg.
Starting at Fleyh this artificial water channel ran for about 3.5 km in a northwesterly direction to the eastern end of Bohemian Georgenthal (today Český Jiřetín). Here it changed direction by almost 180° and ran for about 3 km eastwards into the Rauschenbach valley.
The Red River Floodway (French: Canal de dérivation de la rivière Rouge) is an artificial flood control waterway in Western Canada. It is a 47 km (29 mi) long channel which, during flood periods, takes part of the Red River 's flow around the city of Winnipeg , Manitoba to the east and discharges it back into the Red River below the dam at ...
Has water taxi service. Not navigable to other waterways Barkley Canal: Lyon County: KY: 1.25 mi (2.01 km) Cal-Sag Channel: Cook County: IL: 16 mi (26 km) Part of the Illinois Waterway: Calcasieu Ship Channel: Calcasieu Parish, Cameron Parish: LA: 36.5 mi (58.7 km) Canaveral Barge Canal: Merritt Island: FL: 6 mi (9.7 km) Cape Cod Canal ...
Water channel may refer to: Strait, a naturally formed, narrow waterway; Channel (geography), a landform consisting of the outline of the path of a narrow body of water; Canal, a man-made channel for water; Aquaporin, a cellular membrane structure that selectively passes water; An experimental tank