qanats
Identification code: 300006167
Hierarchy classification:
- top of the aat hierarchies
- Objects Facet
- Built Environment (hierarchy name)
- Single Built Works (hierarchy name)
- single built works (built environment)
- [single built works by specific type]
- [single built works by function]
- hydraulic structures
- [hydraulic structures by function]
- water distribution structures
- aqueducts
Related term/s
Alternative term/s
- canants
- connaughts
- falaj
- falaz
- felledj
- foggara
- fuqarā
- galeria
- ghannat
- ghannats
- iffeli
- kahrez
- kakoriz
- kanats
- kanauts
- kanayet
- kanayets
- karaz
- karez
- käris
- kariz
- khads
- khanates
- khariz
- khettara
- khottara
- mayon
- ngoula
- qanat
- qānat
- qānats
- quanats
- rhettara
Anotations
Scope note:
Underground irrigation systems consisting of tunnels that are inclined from a water source and connected to the surface by a series of regularly spaced vertical shafts.
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