Sengge Zangbo, Sengge Khabab () or Shiquan He () is a river in the

Ngari Prefecture Ngari Prefecture () or Ali Prefecture ( zh, s=阿里地区 , t=阿里地區 , p=Ālǐ Dìqū) is a prefecture of China's Tibet Autonomous Region covering Western Tibet, whose traditional name is Ngari Khorsum. Its administrative centre and large ...

in the

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that is the source stream of the

Indus River The Indus ( ) is a transboundary river of Asia and a trans-Himalayas, Himalayan river of South Asia, South and Central Asia. The river rises in mountain springs northeast of Mount Kailash in the Western Tibet region of China, flows northw ...

, one of the major trans-Himalayan rivers of Central and

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. The river rises in the mountain springs north of the Manasarovar lake, and downstream joins the Gar Tsangpo river near the village of Tashigang. Although it is thereafter called the Indus internationally, the Tibetans continue to regard the combined river to be Sênggê Zangbo as it flows into Ladakh. The town of

Shiquanhe Shiquanhe (), known in Tibetan as Sênggêkanbab () or Sênggêzangbo, is the main town (China), town and administrative seat of Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Shiquanhe is located on the bank of Sênggê Zangbo, the river sour ...

, the administrative headquarters of the

, is located in the lower valley of Sengge Zangbo, and is named after the river. Chizuo Tsangpo near its confluence with Sengge Zangbo

The Sengge Zangbo drains an area of , and covers a length of . Main tributaries include Gar Tsangpo. Other tributaries include the Langqu River, the Chizuo Tsangpo River, and the Charinongqu River.

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Sengge river basin
OpenStreetMap, retrieved 11 September 2021. Rivers of Tibet Tributaries of the Indus River Indus basin {{China-river-stub