Bến Nghé Channel seen from the Bitexco Financial Tower

Bến Nghé Channel (Vietnamese: Kênh Bến Nghé, Rạch Bến Nghé), also known during the French colonial as arroyo Chinois, is a waterway in Ho Chi Minh City.[1][2] Very much an urban channel, the sides are said to be lined with "many grocery stores, rice processing factories, sawmills, oriental drugstores, and warehouses, all owned by the Chinese. They hatch[ed] eggs, salted fish and eggs, dried fruit ..."[3]

1878 map of Saigon depicting the arroyo Chinois as the southern border of the city

References

  1. ↑ Dodd, Jan; Lewis, Mark; Emmons, Ron (2003). Rough Guide to Vietnam. Rough Guides. p. 94. ISBN 978-1-84353-095-4. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
  2. ↑ Corfield, Justin (2014). Historical Dictionary of Ho Chi Minh City. Anthem Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-78308-333-6. Retrieved 19 June 2022.
  3. ↑ Pham, David Lan (30 June 2008). Two Hamlets in Nam Bo: Memoirs of Life in Vietnam Through Japanese Occupation, the French and American Wars, and Communist Rule, 1940-1986. McFarland. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-7864-3760-3. Retrieved 20 July 2012.

10°46′09″N 106°42′24″E / 10.769236°N 106.706738°E / 10.769236; 106.706738

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