St Inez Creek
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St Inez creek is a creek
Creek (tidal)
A tidal creek, tidal channel, or estuary is the portion of a stream that is affected by ebb and flow of ocean tides, in the case that the subject stream discharges to an ocean, sea or strait. Thus this portion of the stream has variable salinity and electrical conductivity over the tidal cycle...

 in Panjim, in the India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n state of Goa
Goa
Goa , a former Portuguese colony, is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located in South West India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its...

. The creek opens up into the Mandovi River. The creek is 3.7 kilometres (2 mi) in length, with a surface area
of 65750 square metres (707,727.1 sq ft) with an average width of 12.6 metres (41.3 ft). The creek begins at the paddy fields at Altinho
Altinho
Altinho is a hill neighbourhood of Panaji, the state capital of India's smallest state Goa. In the past it has been considered an elite residential colony, with the State's chief minister's residence and the Archbishop's palace located here...

 hill at Taleigao
Taleigao
Taleigao is a town in Goa, India near the capital Panaji.Brahmanand Shankwalkar, ex football captain of India, was born in Taleigao. Narayan Hari Naik, a veteran freedom fighter of the Goan liberation movement was also born in Taleigao....

, Caranzalem
Caranzalem
Caranzalem is a place in Goa in India, near the capital Panaji....

, and the Nagahali hills of Dona Paula
Dona Paula
Dona Paula is a former village, and tourist destination, in the suburbs of Panaji, Goa, India. It is today home to the National Institute of Oceanography, and just alongside it lie the Goa University and the International Centre Goa...

. According to a Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

 plaque on one of the culverts, the creek dates back to 1829, although astronomer Percival Noronha dates it back to 1647.

It has 12 culverts that originate from the old Goa Medical College
Goa Medical College
Goa Medical College is a medical college and hospital in Goa, India. It was built by the Portuguese in 1842 as the Escola Médico-Cirúrgica de Goa . It is the oldest Medical College in Asia...

 complex leading to the Campal head, the Fire Brigade, the sewerage treatment plant at Tonca
Tonca
Tonca is a neighbourhood in Panaji, capital of the state of Goa, India....

, the Tambdi Mati Cumrabhat, and the El Passo hotel.
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