The Cấm River (

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: Sông Cấm) is a river in northern

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. It is one of the shorter

distributaries A distributary, or a distributary channel, is a stream that branches off and flows away from a main stream channel. Distributaries are a common feature of river deltas. The phenomenon is known as river bifurcation. The opposite of a distributar ...

of the Thái Bình River but geographically important as

Hai Phong Haiphong ( vi, Hải Phòng, ), or Hải Phòng, is a major industrial city and the third-largest in Vietnam. Hai Phong is also the center of technology, economy, culture, medicine, education, science and trade in the Red River delta. Haiphong wa ...

, Vietnam's second largest port is located on the banks of this river. Sông Cấm - Mapillary (1RATG9qMxkh-cL Vot7Jpg)

Geography and hydrology

The start of the Cấm River is the confluence of the Kinh Môn River and a smaller stream, the Hàn, in Hải Dương Province. From there it flows southeasterly, turning more easterly at

before entering the Gulf of Tonkin as a wide

estuary An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea. Estuaries form a transition zone between river environments and maritime environm ...

farther downstream. The entire length of the river is . The Cấm is subject to frequent

silting Siltation, is water pollution caused by particulate terrestrial clastic material, with a particle size dominated by silt or clay. It refers both to the increased concentration of suspended sediments and to the increased accumulation (temporary or ...

, requiring regular dredging to accommodate ships of greater than 5,000 tons.

References

*''Vietnam Administrative Atlas'', NXB Bản Đồ, 2004.

External links

Cục đường sông Việt Nam

Sông Cấm trên Website Hải Phòng
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