The Huifa River () is a 267.7-km-long tributary of the

Second Songhua River The Second Songhua River is a tributary of the Songhua River in Jilin Province, China. The river meets the Songhua and Nen Rivers near Songyuan and has several tributaries, including the First Dao, the Second Dao, Huifa, Yinma, Yitong and Laf ...

in center

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. The source of river is located in

Qingyuan Manchu Autonomous County Qingyuan Manchu Autonomous County (, Manchu: ; Mölendroff: cingyuwan manju beye dasangga siyan), or simply Qingyuan County () is one of the three counties under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Fushun, in the east of Liaoning, P ...

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and flows generally from west to east across

Meihekou Meihekou () is a city of 600,000 in Jilin province, People's Republic of China. It is a regional transport hub, connecting three railway lines, all of which are single track, and 2 national highways. The city is also a major lorry transshipment po ...

、 Huinan、 Huadian of

Jilin Province Jilin (; alternately romanized as Kirin or Chilin) is one of the three provinces of Northeast China. Its capital and largest city is Changchun. Jilin borders North Korea (Rasŏn, North Hamgyong, Ryanggang and Chagang) and Russia (Prim ...

and joins Second Songhua River at Toudaogou of Huadian City.

History

Large numbers of dolmens are distributed along the Huifa River's upper reaches. They date to the fifth century

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and are related to similar megalithic tombs located on the

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and in the

Liao River The Liao River () is the principal river in southern Northeast China, and one of the seven main river systems in China. Its name derived from the Liao region, a historical name for southern Manchuria, from which the Liaoning province, Liaodong P ...

basin and

Notes

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