Amazing canals system in South of Vietnam.
Maybe many people have never known about one very big system in South of Vietnam, because they look like natural rivers, however they are canals system.
The total length of canals is more longer than the great wall of China. The first canal is 85km longer than Panama canal 77km. Emperor Gia Long of Nguyễn Dynasty ordered the mandarin Nguyễn Văn Thoại to dig a new canal along the Cambodian–Vietnamese border.The emperor's edict said: "This canal-digging project is tough, but its role in national security and national defense is not small, we should accept the hardship so that our descendants would have the benefit .." The construction of the canal was started in the end of 1819. The project used about 80,000 local Vietnamese and Khmer workers. After the death of Emperor Gia Long, the succeeding Emperor Minh Mạng continued the project. The workers, especially the Khmers, were heavily exploited by being forced to do hard work, which resulted thousands of deaths from fatigue and consequent disease during the canal's construction.
The construction was completed in 1824 and Emperor Minh Mạng named the canal after Châu Vĩnh Tế. From that point on, the canal plays an important role in the southern Vietnam's communication, transportation and the definition of the border of Vietnam and Cambodia.
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The total length of canals is more longer than the great wall of China. The first canal is 85km longer than Panama canal 77km. Emperor Gia Long of Nguyễn Dynasty ordered the mandarin Nguyễn Văn Thoại to dig a new canal along the Cambodian–Vietnamese border.The emperor's edict said: "This canal-digging project is tough, but its role in national security and national defense is not small, we should accept the hardship so that our descendants would have the benefit .." The construction of the canal was started in the end of 1819. The project used about 80,000 local Vietnamese and Khmer workers. After the death of Emperor Gia Long, the succeeding Emperor Minh Mạng continued the project. The workers, especially the Khmers, were heavily exploited by being forced to do hard work, which resulted thousands of deaths from fatigue and consequent disease during the canal's construction.
The construction was completed in 1824 and Emperor Minh Mạng named the canal after Châu Vĩnh Tế. From that point on, the canal plays an important role in the southern Vietnam's communication, transportation and the definition of the border of Vietnam and Cambodia.
http://s29.postimg.org/9ltsw849z/cannal.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Kinh_Vĩnh_Tế.jpg/800px-Kinh_Vĩnh_Tế.jpg
http://www.tin.lukhach24h.com//HLIC/2390e70d9d4efc7d34a32bf31b231f96.jpg
http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/6268/cdht1.png
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It's interesting because those waterways or rivers are not natural scenery, they are artifical. And They were digged by hundred thousands of people in many years since 1800s.
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Millions of Basa fishes are kept in water flow of canals.
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Thank for your thought, when I see them on Google earth, they make me so amazing, that's a complicated canals system, they were digged by many people, they are man-made canals. Natural rivers are not straight like those.
Those canals can be used for irrigation, waterway traffic and water from Mekong river can quickly flow to sea in the flood season. In the past, a part of this system was used to prevent invader. Long Walls can be broken but they can not break rivers. King Gia Long 's very intelligent.
Maybe they can see some brands of them from the moon although many people think them as natural rivers or streams .
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If you zoom google map more, you can see other small canals, so amzing system in VN.
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Those canals can be used for irrigation, waterway traffic and water from Mekong river can quickly flow to sea in the flood season. In the past, a part of this system was used to prevent invader. Long Walls can be broken but they can not break rivers. King Gia Long 's very intelligent.
Maybe they can see some brands of them from the moon although many people think them as natural rivers or streams .
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Mekong_delta.jpg
If you zoom google map more, you can see other small canals, so amzing system in VN.
http://www.luxuryprivatetravel.com/images/news/larg_images/monkeybridge_1632012_55926.jpg
http://13pinangtac.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/rmt.jpg
http://vietnamtourism.gov.vn/images/2014/AnhInternet/DongbangSCL.jpg
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They are very impressive, I don't know how could they do that? A giant job.
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