Yi River (China)

The Yi River ( Chinese: 伊河;

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: Yī Hé) is a tributary of the Luo River in the province of

Henan Henan (; or ; ; alternatively Honan) is a landlocked province of China, in the central part of the country. Henan is often referred to as Zhongyuan or Zhongzhou (), which literally means "central plain" or "midland", although the name is a ...

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. The river rises in

Luanchuan County Luanchuan County () is a county under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Luoyang, in the west of Henan province, China. It has an area of and a population of 318,000. The county contains significant deposits of molybdenum and tungs ...

, and then flows through the counties of

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and Yichuan before entering

Luoyang Luoyang is a city located in the confluence area of Luo River and Yellow River in the west of Henan province. Governed as a prefecture-level city, it borders the provincial capital of Zhengzhou to the east, Pingdingshan to the southeast, Nanyan ...

city proper. It joins the Luo River at Yanshi. The river's total length is 368 kilometres and it has a catchment basin of 6,100 square kilometres. The Yi-Luo river basin is of major archaeological significance. Rivers of Henan {{China-river-stub