Length 138 km (86 mi) Lock width 6.5 m (21 ft) | Lock length 39 m (128 ft) Status Open | |
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Locks 11 (4 in the canal and 7 in the Oise) Total rise 10.45 km (6.49 mi) in the Oise, 13.1 km (8.1 mi) in the canal. Connects to Canal de Saint-Quentin, Seine, Canal du Nord | ||
The Canal latéral à l'Oise is a canal in northern France that, along with the River Oise, connects the Canal de Saint-Quentin at Chauny to the Seine at Conflans-Sainte-Honorine.
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Map of Canal Lat%C3%A9ral %C3%A0 l'Oise, France
The path is made up of the canal and the canalized River Oise. When a canal has the word latéral as part of its name, the canal follows the path of the river it is named after but is in a separate bed. When a river is canalized, locks have been placed in the bed of the river so that the river acts as a canal. So, the path described in this article is 34 km of a canal parallel to the River Oise and 103.5 km of the River Oise converted to a canal. The transition point is in Janville. 49.46255°N 2.86503°E / 49.46255; 2.86503
En route
The PK numbers below go from 0 to 34 at Janville and then decrease from 103.5 to 0 at the Seine.