Hai Hey

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Hai Hey
The Hai He river system

The Hai He river system

Data
location Tianjin ( PR China )
River system Hai Hey
Confluence of Ziya He , Yongding He, and Bei Yunhe (North Canal) in Hongqiao District
39 ° 9 ′ 44 ″  N , 117 ° 10 ′ 34 ″  E
muzzle in the Tanggu district in the Gulf of Bohai Coordinates: 38 ° 58 ′ 12 "  N , 117 ° 43 ′ 30"  E 38 ° 58 ′ 12 "  N , 117 ° 43 ′ 30"  E
Mouth height m

length 70 km
Catchment area 318,200 km²
Big cities Beijing , Tianjin
Communities 26 cities
Residents in the catchment area 1,340,000,000

The Hai He ( Chinese  海河 , Pinyin Hǎi Hé  - "Sea River"), formerly also called Bai He ( Chinese  白河 , Pinyin Bái Hé , W.-G. Pei Ho  - "White River"), is a Chinese river that runs through Tianjin flows and flows into the Gulf of Bohai in the Yellow Sea .

From Tianjin, the Hai He is connected to the Huang He ("Yellow River") and the Yangtze via the Imperial Canal . The Hai He river system was fundamentally changed by this channel. Before that, the Wei He , the Ziya He , the Yongding He and the Bai He each had their own estuaries ; However, since the water of these rivers was needed to guarantee the navigability of the Kaiserkanal, only one of the river underflows remained. This corresponds to the current course of Hai He.

The Hai He arises in and around Tianjin through the confluence of the southern Imperial Canal , the Ziya He, the Daqing He , the Yongding He and the northern Imperial Canal . The southern Imperial Canal is also fed by Wei He at Linqing . The northern Imperial Canal corresponds to the course of the Bai He ( Chaobai He ) from the Beijing district of Tongzhou . Since this was Beijing's only access to the sea, the Hai He was also referred to as Bai He by Europeans and Americans.

The Hai He in the narrower sense is only 70 km long on the route from Tianjin to its mouth. However, if you add its longest tributary, the result is a length of 1,329 km. Its catchment area is approximately 319,000 km².

Historical events

On May 20, 1858, the river was the site of an invasion by Anglo-French forces during the Second Opium War , in which the Taku forts were captured.

Web links

Commons : Hai He  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Zhao, Yu, et al. "Distributions, Early Diagenesis, and Spatial Characteristics of Amino Acids in Sediments of Multi-Polluted Rivers: A Case Study in the Haihe River Basin, China." International journal of environmental research and public health 13.2 (2016): 234. ( HTML ) ( PDF 3.21 MB)
  2. deutsche-schutzgebiete.de The Conquest of the Taku forts , accessed on January 2, 2020