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|caption = The Grand Canal              

|number = 182       
|total length= 46753.36 m       
|total area= 935,299.2 m^2       
|longest= Grand Canal       
|widest=       
|shortest= Canal Bucintoro       
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''This page is an overview of all the canals in Venice.''
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Venice is known as "the City of Canals" and contains 182 named canals which break down further into [[Canal Segment|Canal Segments]] connecting Venice' [[islands]].    
<ref>The Building Blocks of Venice: Preserving knowledge of a city's infrastructure and maintenance. Worcester Ma. Worcester Polytechnic Institute.2011    
[https://sites.google.com/site/venicemaintained/proposal]
</ref>. The longest canal is the [[Grand Canal]] which spans 4,016 meters. In Venice, a single [[canal]] is called ''rio'' (plural: ''rii'').

=History=
The current canals of Venice are descendants of natural lagoon channels that separated the original [[islands]]. With the development of the City of Venice, their natural paths were gradually modified through land reclamation that brought the [[islands]] closer and closer to each other, resulting in the canal network one can observe today. Due to these pervasive human interventions, only a few of today's canals still retain their original natural course, as evidenced by the [[Grand Canal]], whose sinuous shape clearly betrays its natural origins.
<ref>Caniato, Carrera, Giannotti, and Pypaert. Venezia la città dei rii. Verona: UNESCO: Insula, 1999. </ref>

=Statistics=
*Top ten [[Longest Canals]]
*Top ten [[Shortest Canals]]
*Top ten [[Greatest Surface Area:Canals|Greatest Surface Area]]

=Hydrodynamics=
The effects of [[hydrodynamics]] are constantly changing because of the frequent intersections in Venetian canals . Hydrodynamics of the [[Canal Segments]] are necessary for them to function correctly.

=Map=
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=See also=
*[[Canal Segment]]
*[[Canal Wall]]
*[[Canal Wall Damage]]
*[[Canal Maintenance]]


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=References=
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==Bibliography==
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=External Links=
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Canals_in_Venice Canals in Venice - Wikipedia English]
*[http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categoria:Rii_di_Venezia Canals in Venice - Wikipedia Italia]

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