Haute-Saône Canal

{{Short description|Canal in eastern France}}

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|name=Canal de la Haute-Saône

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|canal_length= {{convert|10|km|mi|abbr=on}} to Botans, {{convert|14.9|km|mi|abbr=on}} to Belfort

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|current_num_locks=5

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|status= Closed

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|former_names=Canal de Montbéliard à la Haute-Saône

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|date_began=1882

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|date_completed=1923

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|direction= East/West

|start_point=Canal du Rhône au Rhin at Allenjoie

|end_point=Botans

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The Canal de la Haute-Saône ({{IPA|fr|kanal də la ot son}}), also canal de Montbéliard à la Haute-Saône ({{IPA|fr|kanal də mɔ̃beljaʁ a la ot son|}}), is a canal in eastern France. Although it was designed to connect the upper course of the river Saône (in Conflandey) with the Canal du Rhône au Rhin (in Allenjoie) along Lure and Ronchamp, only the short section between Allenjoie and Botans has been opened in 1923.[http://www.persee.fr/doc/geo_0003-4010_1931_num_40_228_11115 Le canal de Montbéliard à la Haute Saône], M. Lanoir, Annales de Géographie, 1931 In the section between Ronchamp and Botans, several locks and tunnels have been built, but it was never used. The section Allenjoie-Botans is 10 km long with five locks.{{cite book | last = McKnight | first = Hugh | title = Cruising French Waterways, 4th Edition | publisher = Sheridan House| year = 2005 | isbn = 978-1574092103}} It was closed in 2013.[http://www.fluviacarte.com/fr/voies-navigables/region-est-6/voie-embranchement-de-belfort-88 Fluviacarte], Embranchement de Belfort