Channel of Loing

Physical characteristics

side Channel with the Freycinet gauge skirting the Loing.

49,424 kilometers length, it comprises 19 locks.

It connects the communes of Saint-Mammès (77) on the the Seine and of Buges (45) close to Montargis where the channel joined the Canal of Briare and the Canal of displaced Orleans for navigation in 1954.

Altitude in Saint-Mammès: 45m
Altitude in Buges: 83m

Fall average of the locks: 2m

Higher fall: lock

History

Beginning of work in 1720, opening of the channel in 1723. (source: A channel… of the channels, Picardy editor).

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