Belgium » Schelde / Escaut River | Belgium

The Schelde is an important big gauche from Ghent over Tournai into the French Pas de Calais and the basin of Paris.


Schelde / Escaut River | Belgium: Characteristics & Overview

Rating of waterway

Degree of difficulty:
Very demanding

Requirements:
Boating license essential

Character of waterway:
no rating

Profile of waterway:
Main waterway

Facilities groundside:
Sufficiant



Schelde / Escaut River | Belgium: Tips & Detailed information

Wharfs, Marinas, Harbors, Facilities, Houseboat hirers, Restaurants and Shops.

Facts to this waterway:

192 km
2.50 m
7.00 m


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Bovenschelde – Haute Escaut, Province of Hennegau

As it is with the Belgium north to south waters, all of them have two names. The Schelde crosses the border in the south as Escaut and sticks to it until the Flemish Border at Warcoing after which it gets bigger and bigger and becomes the Bovenschelde. For the present it ends at Ghent, at the Ringvaart.    




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