water levels, often just called levels. A canal can be called a navigation canal when it parallels a natural river and shares part of the latter's discharges...

The Lachine Canal (French: Canal de Lachine) is a canal passing through the southwestern part of the Island of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, running 14.5...

The Erie Canal is a historic canal in upstate New York that runs east–west between the Hudson River and Lake Erie. Completed in 1825, the canal was the...

The Suez Canal (Arabic: قَنَاةُ ٱلسُّوَيْسِ, Qanāt as-Suwais) is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red...

constitute the Salish Sea. Hood Canal is not a canal in the sense of an artificial waterway— it is a natural feature. Hood Canal is long and narrow with an...

The Panama Canal (Spanish: Canal de Panamá) is an artificial 82-kilometer (51-mile) waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific...

of Natural Resources. They are used for various recreational purposes by the public, and still provide water for some industries. Parts of the canal are...

sections of the waterway consist of natural inlets, saltwater rivers, bays, and sounds, while others are artificial canals. It provides a navigable route along...

Grant's Canal (also known as Williams's Canal) was an incomplete military effort to construct a canal through De Soto Point in Louisiana, across the Mississippi...

of Tamil Nadu, India. The canal connects most of the natural backwaters along the coast to Chennai (Madras) port. The canal was constructed during British...