Gia Long had the silted moat between the Vũng Gù creek and Mỹ Tho dredged and widened into a canal about 14 km long, which he named Bảo Định. It counts as the first dug canal of the Mekong Delta.
Construction
Bảo Định canal dredged
- 23 February 1819
- Southeast Asia
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