The Cầu Đỏ River () or Cẩm Lệ River () is a river in
Da Nang
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,
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. It is formed where the
Yên and the
Túy Loan join on the boundary between the districts
Hòa Vang and
Cẩm Lệ. Its flow mostly follows this district boundary, to finally flow between the wards Hòa Xuân and Khuê Trung of Cẩm Lệ district, to the tripoint of the districts Cẩm Lệ,
Ngũ Hành Sơn
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, and
Hải Châu, where it joins the
Đò Toản to form the
Hàn River.
The Da Nang Water Supply Company, which supplies the city of Da Nang with freshwater, relies in big part on the Cầu Đỏ River for water intake. During the dry season, this is made difficult by saltwater intrusion, which has become worse since the construction of
hydroelectric
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projects upstream.
Names
The two main names of the river are Cầu Đỏ and Cẩm Lệ. Many sources consider these to be equivalent and use either name for the entirety of the river. The official names, according to the Da Nang city authorities, are Cầu Đỏ from the start of the river until Nguyễn Tri Phuong bridge (which is the part that flows along the boundary between Hòa Vang and Cẩm Lệ districts), after which the name is Cẩm Lệ until it ends in the Hàn River (which is the part that flows through Cẩm Lệ district).
[
There is agreement that the name Cẩm Lệ comes from a fruit that was sold there, but there is disagreement on which fruit exactly: a black-skinned ]bitter melon
''Momordica charantia'' (commonly called bitter melon, cerassee, goya, bitter apple, bitter gourd, bitter squash, balsam-pear, karela, karavila and many more #Uses, names listed below) is a tropical and subtropical vine of the family Cucurbitac ...
or a type of lychee.[
The name Cầu Đỏ means “red bridge”, and comes from the name of one of the bridges spanning the river. This bridge used to be red, but is now white.]
References
Rivers of Da Nang
Rivers of Vietnam
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