The Zhuanglang River is a river located in the central part of

Gansu Province Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibeta ...

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. It is a left tributary of the

Yellow River The Yellow River or Huang He (Chinese: , Standard Beijing Mandarin, Mandarin: ''Huáng hé'' ) is the second-longest river in China, after the Yangtze River, and the List of rivers by length, sixth-longest river system in the world at th ...

. Its source is located in Zhuaxixiulong town, in the northwest of Tianzhu (Bairi) Tibetan Autonomous County, Wuwei City, on the eastern end of the Qilian Mountains. The river flows from northwest to southeast through Tianzhu and Yongdeng County, with a total length of 184.8 kilometres long, and a watershed area of 4,008 km². The valley of the Zhuanglang River was the main route of the eastern part of the

Hexi Corridor The Hexi Corridor (, Xiao'erjing: حْسِ ظِوْلاْ, IPA: ), also known as the Gansu Corridor, is an important historical region located in the modern western Gansu province of China. It refers to a narrow stretch of traversable and relativ ...

on the ancient

Silk Road The Silk Road () was a network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century. Spanning over 6,400 kilometers (4,000 miles), it played a central role in facilitating economic, cultural, political, and reli ...

. Nowadays, the G30 Lianhuo Expressway, China National Highway G312 and the Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway all run along the river, making it a major traffic route between China proper and the northwestern areas.

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Rivers of Gansu Tributaries of the Yellow River {{PRChina-geo-stub