canal system
Interconnected water routes
A canal system is a network of artificial waterways built for transportation, irrigation, or drainage.
The term applies both to human engineering—the Erie Canal system transformed commerce in early America—and to biological structures, particularly the water vascular system of echinoderms like starfish, which circulates fluid through internal canals.
- sluice gateAdjustable barrier controlling waterflow
- waterwayNavigable route for vessels
- inland waterwayNavigable route through land
- aqueductChannel conveying water distances
- lockMechanism requiring a key
river delta · estuary · drainage ditch · bile duct · tidal channel · reservoir · levee · floodgate · shipping lane · Amsterdam · Venice canals · barge · floodplain · gondola · tunnel · hydraulic · Suez · Venice
- transportation infrastructurehighways, highway design, road design, road network, rail network
- canalslock gates, lock systems, pound lock, lock gate, towpaths
- Georgian BritainGeorge III, Walpole, Culloden, Georgian era, Regency period
- Illinois historyAbraham Lincoln, Chicago, Springfield, Chicago Fire, Great Chicago Fire
- Midlands HistoryBirmingham, Norman Conquest, Coventry, Roman occupation, Leicester
- Indo-Gangetic PlainGanges River, Indus River, Punjab, fertile land, river basin
water-based vs. land-based transport infrastructure
canal systemroad network
Interconnected system of streets
highway system · rail network · overland routes · road infrastructure · interstate system