Xianshui River () — a river in
Sichuan
Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...
province, southern
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
.
Geography
The Xianshui River has three
river source
The headwaters of a river or stream is the farthest place in that river or stream from its estuary or downstream confluence with another river, as measured along the course of the river. It is also known as a river's source.
Definition
T ...
s, the Da-chu river (Chinese characters:达曲) and Nyi-chu river (Chinese characters:泥曲).
[http://www.cwru.edu/affil/tibet/booksAndPapers/Gelek/Gelek_east.pdf ] After the
confluence
In geography, a confluence (also: ''conflux'') occurs where two or more flowing bodies of water join to form a single channel. A confluence can occur in several configurations: at the point where a tributary joins a larger river (main stem); o ...
of the two rivers in
Luhuo
Luhuo County (; ) is a county of Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.
History
On March 24, 1923, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck between Luhuo and Dawu and killed 4800 people.
O ...
, the name becomes the Xianshui River.
A dam and hydroelectric plant on it in Luhuo was completed in 2009.
;Yangtze River
The Xianshui River flows into the
Yalong River
The Yalong River ( zh, 雅砻江, Pinyin, p ''Yǎlóngjiāng'', Wade–Giles, w ''Ya-lung Chiang'', Help:IPA/Mandarin, IPA ), or Nyag Chu (Standard Tibetan, Tibetan: , Tibetan pinyin, z ''Nyag Qu''), is a major tributary ...
at
Yajiang
Nyagqu or Nyachukha County (, Nyagchukha, Nyagquka) or Yajiang County (), named after Nyagchukha in Tibetan, is a county of the traditional Kham Region of eastern Tibet. It is currently under the administration of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Pre ...
.
Via the Yalong River confluence, the Xianshui is a tributary of the
Yangtze River (Chang Jiang).
See also
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Xianshuihe fault system
The Xianshuihe fault system is a major active sinistral (left-lateral) strike-slip fault zone in southwestern China, at the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau. It has been responsible for many major earthquakes, and is one of the most seismicall ...
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Index: Tributaries of the Yangtze River
References
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Rivers of Sichuan
Tributaries of the Yangtze River