The Bảo Định canal (kênh Bảo Định, Bảo Định Hà), also called the Bảo Định river (Bảo Định Giang, sông Bảo Định) is a part-natural, part-man made waterway in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam. It is in places also named the Vũng Gù canal (kênh Vũng Gù, (sông Vũng Gù).
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The canal runs from the Vàm Cỏ Tay river at Tân An to the Tiền River at Mỹ Tho.[1]
History
The waterway first began to be manually improved in the rulership of Nguyễn Phúc Chu (1675–1725).[2] The canal was substantially deepened and extended in the reign of Gia Long of Nguyễn dynasty ,[3] with 9,000 workers being mobilised to connect the two rivers around 1819.[4]
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