Chumar

Chumar Qumalai He
The headwaters of the Yangtze, in the north of the Chumar
Data
location	Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu Tibetan, Qinghai ( China )
River system	Yangtze River
Drain over	Jinsha Jiang  → Chuan Jiang  → Yangzi Jiang  → East China Sea
source	in Zhidoi County 35 ° 14 ′ 4 ″  N , 90 ° 58 ′ 6 ″  E
muzzle	in Qumarlêb County in Jinsha Jiang Coordinates: 34 ° 40 '12 "  N , 94 ° 55' 52"  E 34 ° 40 '12 "  N , 94 ° 55' 52"  E
length	526.8 km
Catchment area	20,800 km²
Flowing lakes	Dorgê Co

Chumar ( Tib . : chu dmar, "red water river", German also Tschhumar ) is a river in the west of the northwest Chinese province of Qinghai . It is a northern tributary of the Jinsha Jiang , into which it flows in Qumarlêb County .

Its upper course flows through the lake Dorgê Co (Tibetan for "stone lake">, in Chinese transcription 多 尔 改错 , Doergai Cho ), which in the west under its Mongolian name Elsen Nur or Öls Nuur (in Chinese as 叶 鲁苏 湖 , Yelusu Hu borrowed) known; another name of the lake is 错 仁德加 , Cuorendejia .

Tibetan name
Tibetan script : ཆུ་ དམར་
Wylie transliteration : chu dmar
Chinese name
Simplified : 楚玛尔河; 曲 麻 莱 河
Pinyin : Chumaer He; Qumalai He

Remarks

1. ↑ The Chinese Wikipedia has an article about the lake 多 尔 改错
2. ↑ The name "Cuoren Dejia" is also used on GoogleMaps.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} for example in the Bertelsmann Hausatlas, Gütersloh 1960, p. 178