page_title: Canal latéral à la Loire
section_title: En Route
hierarchical_section_title: Canal latéral à la Loire / En Route
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Briare, Loiret, Centre, France. Trafic de plaisance sur le pont-canal. English: Briare, Loiret, Centre, France. Cruise traffic on the canal bridge.
context_page_description: The Canal Latéral à la Loire was constructed between 1827 and 1838 to connect the Canal de Briare at Briare and the Canal du Centre at Digoin, a distance of 196 kilometres. It replaced the use of the river Loire, which was unreliable during winter floods and summer droughts. Aqueducts were used to cross the Allier at Le Guétin and the Loire at Digoin. However, because of the extreme length required, an aqueduct was not built to cross the Loire at Briare until 1896, when the Briare aqueduct was constructed.
context_section_description: PK 198 Briare
  PK 198 Briare aqueduct
  PK 192 Châtillon-sur-Loire
  PK 187 left to Châtillon branch canal for access to Loire river 
  PK 180 Belleville-sur-Loire
  PK 175 Léré
  PK 159.5 Saint-Satur or Saint-Thibault
  PK 143 Herry
  PK 125 Marseilles-lès-Aubigny
  PK 100 Nevers
  PK 68.5 Decize
  PK 53 Gannay-sur-Loire
  PK 41 Garnat-sur-Engievre
  PK 29 Dompierre-sur-Besbre right canal branch to Dompierre-sur-Besbre
  PK 15 Coulanges
  PK 4 Digoin
  PK 0 continues as Canal du Centre
caption: Cruise traffic in Briare
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