Canal between Champagne and Burgundy

Water type: Canal
Basin: Marne -> Seine -> English channel
Continent: Europe
Climate: Temperate
Country: France

The Canal entre Champagne et Bourgogne (literally Canal between Champagne and Burgundy), previously named Canal de la Marne à la Saône is a canal in north-eastern France connecting the towns of Vitry-le-François and Maxilly-sur-Saône.

It is a summit level canal of Freycinet dimensions connecting the Marne and the Saône.

It is 224.191 kilometres long, and has 114 locks (71 on the Marne side and 43 on the Saône side) and two tunnels, Condes which is 275 metres long and the tunnel on the summit level between Balesmes-sur-Marne and Noidant-Chatenoy, 4820 metres long. which runs almost exactly underneath the source of the Marne.