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The Grand Canal (Chinese: 大运河; pinyin: Dà yùnhé) is a system of interconnected canals linking various major rivers in North and East China, serving as an important waterborne transport infrastructure between the north and the south during Medieval and premodern China.
The Grand Canal (Italian: Canal Grande [kaˌnal ˈɡrande], locally and informally Canalazzo; Venetian: Canal Grando, locally usually Canałaso [kanaˈɰaso]) is the largest channel in Venice, Italy, forming one of the major water-traffic corridors in the city.
The Grand Canal (Irish: An Chanáil Mhór) is the southernmost of a pair of canals that connect Dublin, in the east of Ireland, with the River Shannon in the west, via Tullamore and a number of other villages and towns, the two canals nearly encircling Dublin's inner city.
Grand Canal can refer to multiple waterways: Grand Canal (China) in eastern China; Grand Canal (Ireland), between the River Shannon and Dublin in Ireland; Grand Canal (Venice) in Venice, Italy; Grand Canal d'Alsace in eastern France; Grand Canal (Phoenix) in Arizona, United States; Grand Canal , a fictional location appearing in Mario Party 7
Nonetheless, this monumental water feature was successfully completed, cutting through the Ru de Gally river, which was used to feed the canal. Today, the layout of the Grand Canal takes the form of a cross, the main east-west perspective of which is located in the axis of the château and measures 1.670 kilometres (1.038 mi).
The GRAND Canal would stabilize water levels in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River and improve water quality. The GRAND Canal system would also deliver new fresh water from the James Bay dyke-enclosure, via the Great Lakes, to many water deficit areas in Canada and the United States.
Grand Canal Harbour (near St. James's Gate) branch, Dublin; Royal Canal branch to Constitution Hill harbour, ... Eglington Canal - Galway City (River Corrib)
The non-tidal river navigation featuring 23 locks, continuing 66 km (41 miles) inland from the tidal limit of the Barrow at St Mullin's to Athy. The Barrow Line of the Grand Canal connects to the river at Athy and continues northwards a further 45 km (28 miles) with 9 locks, connecting to the mainline of the Grand Canal at Lowtown, and so to ...