The deputy governor-general Huỳnh Công Lý drove 11,460 labourers of Phiên An province to cut a new channel about 5 km long linking the An Thông river (the Tàu Hủ canal) with the Ruột Ngựa canal, Saigon's waterway to the western delta.
Construction
New channel of the An Thông canal
- 1819
- Southeast Asia
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