France » Canal de la Sambre à l´Oise et Sambre | River and Canal in France

A waterway from the south east of Belgium to Picardy


Canal de la Sambre à l´Oise et Sambre | River and Canal in France: Characteristics & Overview

Rating of waterway

Degree of difficulty:
Some experience is an advantage

Requirements:
Boating license essential

Character of waterway:
no rating

Profile of waterway:
Commercial traffic and tourism

Facilities groundside:
Sufficiant



Canal de la Sambre à l´Oise et Sambre | River and Canal in France: Tips & Detailed information

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

Facts to this waterway:

47 km
38.50 x 5.08 m
47
1.80 m
3.50 m


Canal de Saint Quentin | Canal in France, Canal du Nord | French Canal


River Oise and the Canal de la Sambre à L’Oise
The connection from the Oise and the Canal St. Quentin in France to the Sambre in the south of Belgium was opened in 1838. For leisure boaters, this is probably the most comfortable way from Paris to the southeast of Belgium with Maas (Meuse) and Julianakanaal. The canal remained in the “Freycinet-Gabarit”, therefore, it only takes small commercial vessels. Big vessels use for this stretch the connection Canal du Nord – Deule – Schelde. For this reason, there is hardly any traffic on the Sambre à l’Oise.


Tourism
There is not much of it around here. The landscape is not very spectacular and there are, as in the rest of Pas de Calais and Picardie, military cemeteries everywhere, being evidence of the many wars that have taken place in this badly oppressed region





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