The Luoyang River, or Luoyang Jiang, is a river in

Quanzhou Quanzhou, postal map romanization, alternatively known as Chinchew, is a prefecture-level city, prefecture-level port city on the north bank of the Jin River, beside the Taiwan Strait in southern Fujian, China. It is Fujian's largest metrop ...

Fujian Fujian (; alternately romanized as Fukien or Hokkien) is a province on the southeastern coast of China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its capi ...

, China. It flows in the general southern direction and forms a long and wide estuary as it enters

Quanzhou Bay Quanzhou, alternatively known as Chinchew, is a prefecture-level port city on the north bank of the Jin River, beside the Taiwan Strait in southern Fujian, China. It is Fujian's largest metropolitan region, with an area of and a populati ...

on the

Taiwan Strait The Taiwan Strait is a -wide strait separating the island of Taiwan and continental Asia. The strait is part of the South China Sea and connects to the East China Sea to the north. The narrowest part is wide. The Taiwan Strait is itself a s ...

. The estuary separates Quanzhou's Luojiang and Fengze

districts A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...

on its western shore from Hui'an County to its east. The Luoyang River estuary is spanned by the ancient Luoyang Bridge, as well as by several modern bridges. Oysters have been traditionally cultivated in the Luo River estuary.Luoyang Bridge, Quanzhou, showing oyster beds
from the Henderson collection in Historical Photographs of China

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Rivers of Fujian Quanzhou {{China-river-stub

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