🚢 Rhône–Rhine Canal

The Rhône–Rhine Canal is one of the important watershed canals of the French waterways, connecting the Rhine to the Saône and the Rhône and thereby the North Sea and the Mediterranean. As built, the canal was made up of four distinct sections:the branche Sud or southern branch, 224 km (139 mi) from the Saône just north of Saint-Jean-de-Losne to the Île Napoléon basin and junction just east of Mulhouse; the branche Nord or northern branch, 134 km (83 mi) from the Mulhouse junction to the Dusuzeau basin at the port of Strasbourg; the 22 km (14 mi) long Canal de Huningue, from the junction to the Rhine at Huningue, just north of the Swiss port of Basle; and the 10 km (6.2 mi) long Belfort branch, which when built was to be the first section of the Canal de Montbéliard à la Haute-Saône.