The Zhuoshui River, also spelled Choshui or Jhuoshuei River, () is the longest river in

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

. It flows from its source in Nantou County up to the western border of the county, subsequently forming the border between

Yunlin County Yunlin County ( Mandarin pinyin: ''Yúnlín Xiàn''; Taigi POJ: ''Hûn-lîm-koān''; Hakka PFS: ''Yùn-lìm-yen'') is a county in western Taiwan. Yunlin County borders the Taiwan Strait to the west, Nantou County to the east, Changhua County ...

and

Changhua County Changhua County ( Mandarin Pinyin: ''Zhānghuà Xiàn''; Wade-Giles: ''Chang¹-hua⁴ Hsien⁴''; Hokkien POJ: ''Chiang-hòa-koān'' or ''Chiong-hòa-koān'') is the smallest county on the main island of Taiwan by area, and the fourth small ...

, with a total length of . The river serves as an unofficial boundary between the north and south of Taiwan. It is dammed in its upper reaches by the Wushe and Wujie Dams, and further downstream by the

Jiji Weir The Jiji Weir () is a weir located in Nantou County, Taiwan. The weir is located at the border of three townships A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries. Alth ...

. The Zhuoshui River environment has in recent years been seriously degraded both by the construction of a dam across the river at Jiji and by the ongoing activities of the concrete industry.

Tributaries

* Chenyoulan River * Shuili River * Kashe River

Bridges

* Xiluo Bridge

Dams

* Wujie Dam

Tributaries

Bridges

Dams

See also

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