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Canal de Bourgogne
The Canal de Bourgogne is a 242 km canal in Burgundy, eastern France, linking the Saône at Saint-Jean-de-Losne to the Yonne, with 189 locks, opened in 1833.
Canal de Castilla
The Canal de Castilla is a 207-kilometer canal in the Spanish provinces of Palencia, Burgos, and Valladolid, built between 1753 and 1849 for navigation and irrigation.
Canal de Isabel II
Canal de Isabel II is the publicly owned water company managing the full water cycle for the Community of Madrid, founded by Royal Decree in 1851 to carry Lozoya River water to Madrid.
Canal de l'Ourcq
The Canal de l'Ourcq is a 97-kilometer French canal from Mareuil-sur-Ourcq in the Oise to the bassin de la Villette in Paris, built under Napoleon and opened by 1822.
Canal de Montijo
The Canal de Montijo is an irrigation canal in Badajoz province, Extremadura, Spain, carrying water from the Guadiana basin to the Vegas Bajas near Mérida.
Canal de Navarra
Canal de Navarra is an irrigation and drinking-water canal in Navarra, Spain, carrying water from the Itoiz reservoir on the Irati river about 177 km south to Ablitas.
Canal de Urgell
The Canal de Urgell (Canal d'Urgell) is a major irrigation canal in western Catalonia, Spain, drawing from the Segre river and irrigating about 87,000 hectares of the plain of Lleida.
Canal drop structure
A canal drop structure, also called a canal fall, is a hydraulic structure that lowers water abruptly between canal sections while dissipating energy to prevent erosion.
Canal du Midi
The Canal du Midi, or Languedoc Canal, is a 240 km canal in southern France built between 1667 and 1681 under Pierre-Paul Riquet, linking Toulouse to the Mediterranean.
Canal Imperial de Aragón
The Canal Imperial de Aragón is a 110 km Spanish irrigation and water-supply canal on the Ebro, built between 1776 and 1790 under Ramón Pignatelli.
Canal inclined plane
A canal inclined plane is a rail-mounted structure carrying boats between two canal levels on a slope, in a water-filled caisson or on a cradle.
Canal lining
Canal lining adds an impermeable layer to the bed and edges of an irrigation canal to reduce seepage losses, using materials such as concrete, clay, and geomembranes.
Canal navigation restoration technique
Canal navigation restoration returns a derelict canal or river navigation to full use, combining engineering, water supply, heritage conservation, and volunteer labor, pioneered in Britain from the 1950s.
Canal of the Pharaohs
The Canal of the Pharaohs, also known as Necho's Canal, was an ancient canal linking the Nile to the Red Sea, completed by Darius I around 510 BC.
Canal rotation system
A canal rotation system distributes irrigation water in fixed turns, each farmer receiving the entire canal flow for a scheduled period, as in the warabandi system.
Canal Saint-Martin
The Canal Saint-Martin is a 4.5 km canal in Paris connecting the bassin de la Villette to the Seine, opened in 1825 and now a popular promenade.
Canal siphon
A canal siphon, more fully an inverted siphon or sag pipe, is a closed conduit that carries canal water by gravity under roads, railroads, and depressions.
Canal tunnel
A canal tunnel is a tunnel dug to carry a navigable canal through a hill or high ground, often without a towpath, forcing boats through by legging.
Canale Cavour
The Canale Cavour (Cavour Canal) is a major irrigation canal in Piedmont, Italy, drawing water from the Po at Chivasso to feed the rice-growing plains near Vercelli and Novara.
Canals of Amsterdam
The canals of Amsterdam, also called the Amsterdam canals, are a 17th-century ring of waterways around the old town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2010.
Canals of the United Kingdom
The canals of the United Kingdom, also called the canals of Britain, are a roughly 2,000-mile waterway network built from the 1760s, now used for leisure.
Canterbury Cathedral
Canterbury Cathedral, formally the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Christ at Canterbury, is the cathedral of the Archbishop of Canterbury in Kent, founded in 597.
Cantilever
A cantilever is a rigid structural element, typically a beam fixed at one end and free at the other, projecting into space, as in balconies and cantilever bridges.
Cantilever bridge
A cantilever bridge is built from cantilevers, structures anchored at only one end, so the deck can be built outward from piers without falsework, giving larger spans than simple beams.
Cantilever method
The cantilever method is an approximate structural analysis method for multi-storey building frames under lateral loads like wind, treating the frame as a vertical cantilever beam.
Capacitive deionization
Capacitive deionization (CDI) is an electrochemical desalination method that removes dissolved salt ions from brackish water by electrosorption into porous carbon electrodes at low voltage.
Capacity design
Capacity design is a structural engineering design philosophy for earthquake resistance in which the designer chooses where a structure yields ductilely and strengthens everything else so brittle failure cannot occur.
Cape Canaveral Lighthouse
The Cape Canaveral Lighthouse is an active 151-foot cast-iron lighthouse on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Brevard County, Florida, completed in 1868 and moved inland in 1894.
Cape Coast Castle
Cape Coast Castle, originally the Swedish fort Carolusburg of 1653, is a castle in Cape Coast, Ghana, later the British headquarters on the Gold Coast and a slave-trade holding depot.
Cape Cod (house)
The Cape Cod house is a one-and-a-half-story house type developed in seventeenth-century New England, with a steep side-gabled roof, a central chimney, and a symmetrical facade.