The Pannerdens Kanaal is a canal

Canal

Canals are man-made channels for water. There are two types of canal:#Waterways: navigable transportation canals used for carrying ships and boats shipping goods and conveying people, further subdivided into two kinds:...

 in the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 that was dredged between 1701 and 1709 to cut off a large, shallow bend of river

River

A river is a natural watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, a lake, a sea, or another river. In a few cases, a river simply flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water. Small rivers may also be called by several other names, including...

 Rhine and so improve river traffic and water regulation.

The canal, now indistinguishable from a "real" river, forks off north from river Waal a few kilometres past the point where the Bijlands Kanaal

Bijlands Kanaal

thumb|right|Edited [[satellite]] [[image]] of the [[Rhine]]-[[Waal |Waal]] fork showing the Bijlands Kanaal .The Bijlands Kanaal is a canal in the Dutch province of Gelderland, near the Dutch-German border...

, a similar canal dug to cut off a Waal bend, ends. It flows past the towns of Pannerden

Pannerden

Pannerden is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is located in the municipality of Rijnwaarden.Pannerden was a separate municipality from 1818 to 1985, when it became a part of the new municipality of Rijnwaarden.-External links:*...

 (right bank), which gives the canal its name, and Angeren

Angeren

Angeren is a village in the Netherlands in the municipality of Lingewaard. It has a population of 2,851 , and is located in the very eastern tip of the Betuwe, 2 km to the south of Huissen, between the cities of Arnhem and Nijmegen.Angeren is first mentioned as Angrina in a document dated 814...

 (left bank) and so north to the point where the old Rhine bend flows into it and the river continues to the sea

North Sea

In the southwest, beyond the Straits of Dover, the North Sea becomes the English Channel connecting to the Atlantic Ocean. In the east, it connects to the Baltic Sea via the Skagerrak and Kattegat, narrow straits that separate Denmark from Norway and Sweden respectively...

 as Nederrijn

Nederrijn

thumb|left|300px|Course of the NederrijnNederrijn is the name of the Dutch part of the River Rhine from the confluence at the town of Angeren of the cut-off Rhine bend of Oude Rijn and the Pannerdens Kanaal...

 (Lower Rhine). The old Rhine bend, cut off at its upstream

Source (river or stream)

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 end, still exists and is called, unsurprisingly, Oude Rijn

Oude Rijn (Gelderland)

thumb|right|[[Satellite]] [[image]] of the [[Rhine]]-[[Waal |Waal]] fork showing the Oude Rijn bend .Oude Rijn is the name of a long former bend in river Rhine in the Dutch province of Gelderland....

(Old Rhine).