The Yitong River () is a river in Jilin Province. It is the mother river of

Changchun Changchun (, ; ), also romanized as Ch'angch'un, is the capital and largest city of Jilin Province, People's Republic of China. Lying in the center of the Songliao Plain, Changchun is administered as a , comprising 7 districts, 1 county and 3 c ...

, the capital of Jilin Province.

General

The Yitong River starts in Yitong Manchu Autonomous County, flows north through Changchun and

Dehui Dehui () is a county-level city of Jilin Province, Northeast China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Changchun, located in the middle of the Songliao Plain. It has a total population of 906,000 and a rural population ...

cities, and flows into the Yinma River, one of the branch rivers of the

Songhua River The Songhua Postal Romanization, or Sunghwa River (also Haixi or Xingal, russian: Сунгари ''Sungari'') is one of the primary List of rivers of China, rivers of China, and the longest tributary of the Amur. It flows about from the Chang ...

. It is 342 kilometers long and has a total drainage area of 8,440 square kilometers. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties in the

Chinese history The earliest known written records of the history of China date from as early as 1250 BC, from the Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC), during the reign of king Wu Ding. Ancient historical texts such as the ''Book of Documents'' (early chapter ...

, Buyeo Kingdom built a castle along the Yitong.

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