🏛️ Rideau Canal

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The Rideau Canal is a 202-kilometre long canal that links the Ottawa River at Ottawa with the Cataraqui River and Lake Ontario at Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Its 46 locks raise boats from the Ottawa River 83 metres upstream along the Rideau River to the Rideau Lakes, and from there drop 50 metres downstream along the Cataraqui River to Kingston.

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Rideau Canal is a cultural World Heritage site in Canada, in Americas. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Rideau Canal was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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