The Jiao River () is a river in
Zhejiang
Zhejiang ( or , ; , also romanized as Chekiang) is an eastern, coastal province of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Hangzhou, and other notable cities include Ningbo and Wenzhou. Zhejiang is bordered by Jiang ...
Province, China. Its upper stretches are called Yong'an Brook (永安溪) and Ling River (灵江). It flows into the
Taizhou Bay,
Yueqing Bay and
Sanmen Bay of the
East China Sea
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at the
Port of Taizhou, a natural seaport on the coast of the prefectural-level city of
Taizhou.
This long river drains .
[Li, Yan; Wolanski, Eric; Xie Qinchun. 1993. Coagulation and Settling of Suspended Sediment in the Jiaojiang River Estuary, China. Australian Institute of Marine Science's Journal of Coastal Research 9(2):390-402.]
References
Rivers of Zhejiang
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