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Canals, qanats, stepwells and reservoirs of ancient engineers.
🇺🇸 United States · Hydraulic works
The Cape Cod Canal is an artificial waterway in Massachusetts connecting Cape Cod Bay in the north to Buzzards Bay in the south, and is part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.
🇺🇸 United States · Hydraulic works
The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, historically known as the Chicago Drainage Canal, is a 32-mile-long (51 km) canal system that connects the Chicago River to the Des Plaines River in Northeast…
🇺🇸 United States · Hydraulic works
The Black Rock Dam is a low head dam in the Schuylkill River. Originally constructed as a stone filled, timber crib dam in the early 19th century by the Schuylkill Navigation Company, the dam was one…
🇦🇷 Argentina · Hydraulic works
The El Carrizal Dam (in Spanish, Embalse El Carrizal) is a dam on the upper-middle course of the Tunuyán River, in the center-north of the province of Mendoza, Argentina upstream from the city of…
🇪🇸 Spain · Hydraulic works
The Alcantarilla Dam is an ancient Roman gravity dam built to supply water to the Roman city of Toletum (present-day Toledo, Spain), in the Roman province of Hispania Tarraconensis.
🇮🇳 India · Hydraulic works
The Ganga Canal (also called Gang Canal) of Rajasthan is an irrigation system of canals in the present district of Sri Ganganagar fed from the Sutlej River from Ferozepur Headworks 10 km northwest of…
🇨🇦 Canada · Hydraulic works
Coquitlam Dam is a hydraulic fill embankment dam on the Coquitlam River in the city of Coquitlam, British Columbia.
🇨🇦 Canada · Hydraulic works
Dickson Dam is a flow-regulation dam constructed in 1983 which impounded the Red Deer River creating a reservoir known as Gleniffer Lake.
🇩🇪 Germany · Hydraulic works
The Henrichenburg boat lift facilitates a change in elevation of the Dortmund-Ems-Kanal in Waltrop-Oberwiese.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Classic Maya Late Classic 300–900 CE · Maya (Lakamtuun polity)
Island Maya city on karst lakes: 30 islands linked by causeways with temple islets and raised fields.
🇯🇵 Japan · Hydraulic works
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Circle Jala Aqueduct in Iwate Prefecture, Japan is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) hydraulic attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇷🇴 Romania · Hydraulic works
Brădișor Dam is a large hydroelectric dam on the Lotru River situated in Romania. The project was started and finished in the 1980s and it was made up by the construction of a rockfill with a clay…
🇨🇱 Chile · Hydraulic works
Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Old Aqueduct in Coquimbo, Chile is a Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) hydraulic attributed to Harappan culture.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Hydraulic works
The Ghent–Terneuzen Canal (Dutch: Kanaal van Gent naar Terneuzen), also known as the "Sea Canal" (Zeekanaal) is a canal linking Ghent in Belgium to the port of Terneuzen on the Westerschelde…
