The Qing River () is a right (southern) tributary of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) in

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province of south-central

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Geography

Course

The Qing River Headwaters originate at Tenglong Cave (Teng Long Dong) near Lichuan City, in Hubei's southwestern corner. The river is long. Its

drainage area A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, the ...

is 17,000 km², occupying large portions of the

Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture () is located in the mountainous southwestern corner of Hubei province, People's Republic of China. It forms Hubei's southwestern "panhandle", bordering on Hunan in the south and Chongqing Municipality i ...

and Yichang

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. The Qing River (Qing Jiang)

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with the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) is at the ancient city of Yidu in the Yichang Prefecture of Hubei.

Dams

The Qing River has three large dams on it: the Geheyan Dam, Gaobazhou Dam, and

Shuibuya Dam The Shuibuya Dam is a concrete-face rock-fill embankment dam on the Qingjiang River in Badong County, Enshi, Hubei Province, China. The purpose of the dam is mainly hydroelectricity but it also promotes flood control, navigation, tourism and ...

. The Geheyan Dam has a

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that can lift vessels of up to 300 tons displacement, to allow water transport upriver from the dam. During the

1998 Yangtze River floods The 1998 China floods (1998年中国洪水) lasted from middle of June to the beginning of September 1998 in China at the Yangtze RiverChinanews.com.cn.Chinanews.com.cn" ''98年特大洪水.'' Retrieved on 2009-08-01. as well as the Nen River, Son ...

the dam effectively held back the Qing River (Qing Jiang) flow. There is also the Dongping Dam on the

Zhongjiang River Zhongjiang County () is a county of Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Deyang Deyang () is a prefecture-level city of Sichuan province, China. Deyang is a largely industrial city, with compan ...

(), the main right tributary of the Qing River. In May 2007 landslides into a reservoir on the Qiaohe River, a tributary of the Qing River, caused significant property damage.

"Qing River Gallery"

The "Qing River Gallery" (清江画廊, ''Qīngjiāng Huàláng'') is a Hubei Provincial Scenic Area that includes a series of scenic sites along the course of the Qing River upstream from the Geheyan Dam up to the Shuibuya Salt Springs.

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