ThePannerdens Kanaal (Pannerden Canal) is acanal in theNetherlands that was dredged between 1701 and 1709 to cut off a large, shallow bend of theriverRhine for improving river traffic and water regulation.
The canal, now indistinguishable from a "real" river, forks off north from the river Waal a few kilometres past the point where theBijlands Kanaal, a similar canal dug to cut off a Waal bend, ends. It flows past the towns ofPannerden (right bank), which gives the canal its name, andAngeren (left bank) and so north to the point where the old Rhine bend flows into it and the river continues to thesea as theNederrijn (Lower Rhine). The old Rhine bend, cut off at itsupstream end, still exists and is called, unsurprisingly,Oude Rijn (Old Rhine).
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