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Canals, qanats, stepwells and reservoirs of ancient engineers.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Hydraulic works
Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) intensive · Harappan
Rohri Hills Flint Quarry Mound — Wadi Reach in Sindh, Pakistan is a Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) intensive hydraulic attributed to Harappan.
Panama · Hydraulic works
The Bayano Dam is a dam on the Bayano River in Darién Province, Panama. The dam was built in 1976; its construction flooded approximately 350 square kilometers of rainforest, displacing thousands of…
🇧🇷 Brazil · Hydraulic works
The Engineer Sérgio Motta Dam, formerly known as the Porto Primavera Dam, is an embankment dam on the Paraná River near Rosana in São Paulo, Brazil.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Hydraulic works
Anastasian Roman (505–530 CE) · Eastern Roman (Anastasius Justinian)
Tur-Abdin Roman city built to block Persian Nisibis, excavated by Keser 1986–, Procopius De Aedificiis description intact.
🇫🇷 France · Hydraulic works
The Donzère-Mondragon Dam (or André-Blondel dam), located in the French commune of Bollène-Écluse is a hydroelectric dam and lock built in 1952 at the southern end of the Donzère-Mondragon canal, in…
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Wari → Inca 1100–1480 CE · Wari → Inca
13 terraces 13 fountains laminar flow, Inca estate.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Lycian League (168 BCE) to Roman (64 BCE+) · Lycian → Roman
Gelemiş harbour city excavated by Işık & Koçak, oldest lighthouse (Nero 64 CE), League inscription hall, sand-buried harbour.
🇺🇸 United States · Hydraulic works
The Houston Ship Channel, in Houston, Texas, is part of the Port of Houston, one of the busiest seaports in the world.
Trinidad and Tobago · Hydraulic works
The Caroni–Arena Dam is the largest dam in Trinidad and Tobago. It is located in the Arena Forest Reserve, south of Arima, in the eastern Caroni Plains.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Hydraulic works
Roman (200 CE) · Roman Lycian
Oinoanda — Lycian Bridge at Kemerarasi in Burdur Province, Turkey is a Roman (200 CE) hydraulic attributed to Roman Lycian. Roman segmental arch bridge 30 m over Xanthos tributary at Kemerarasi gorge.
🇮🇳 India · Hydraulic works
Badshapur is one of the 4 sub-division of Gurugram district of Haryana state, situated on the Gurugram-Sohna road (NH-248A).
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Ancient city
Polonnaruwa Period (1153–1215 CE) · Sinhalese medieval (Polonnaruwa period)
Panduwasnuwara is a 12th-century Sinhalese medieval capital (Parakramabahu I), a 20-ha moated rectangular city (900×500 m) with brick rampart and the Panduwasnuwara Vatadage circular relic house (8-m…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hydraulic works
The Caledonian Canal connects the Scottish east coast at Inverness with the west coast at Corpach near Fort William in Scotland.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Hydraulic works
The Camará Dam was a dam located on the Mamanguape River in Paraíba, northeastern Brazil. It burst on June 17, 2004, flooding towns of Alagoa Grande and Mulungu. At least three people died by drowning.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hydraulic works
The Avon Aqueduct is a navigable aqueduct that carries the Union Canal over the River Avon, near Linlithgow, Scotland.
🇩🇪 Germany · Hydraulic works
canal in Bavaria, Germany which connects the Main and the Danube rivers across the European Watershed
🇺🇸 United States · Hydraulic works
concrete gravity run-of-the-river dam on the Columbia River in Oregon and Washington, United States
🇹🇭 Thailand · Hydraulic works
proposed canal across the Kra isthmus connecting the Gulf of Thailand with the Andaman Sea
🇷🇺 Russia · Hydraulic works
architectural landmark, gravity dam, hydroelectric power station in Uglich, Russia
🇧🇷 Brazil · Hydraulic works
hydroelectric dam on the Paraná River on the border between Brazil and Paraguay
🇲🇽 Mexico · Hydraulic works
shortest distance between the Gulf of Mexico and Pacific Ocean
