The Pannerdens Kanaal (Pannerden Canal) is a
canal
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in the
Netherlands
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that was dredged between 1701 and 1709 to cut off a large, shallow bend of the
river
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Rhine
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and so improve river traffic and water regulation.
The canal, now indistinguishable from a "real" river, forks off north from 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
Pannerden is a village in the Netherlands, Dutch province of Gelderland. It is located in the municipality of Zevenaar.
Pannerden was a separate municipality from 1818 to 1985, when it became a part of the new municipality of Rijnwaarden.
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(right bank), which gives the canal its name, and
Angeren
Angeren is a village in the municipality of Lingewaard, Gelderland province, Netherlands. It has a population of 2,851 (1 January 2009), and is located in the very eastern tip of the Betuwe, 2 km to the south of Huissen, between the cities ...
(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
Nederrijn
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(Lower Rhine). The old Rhine bend, cut off at its
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end, still exists and is called, unsurprisingly,
Oude Rijn (Old Rhine).
{{Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta
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