Gai Qu

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Gai Qu
Tibetan: Gê Qu, Ke Chu
Data
location Jomda and Karub , Tibet ( PR China )
River system Mekong
Drain over Mekong  → South China Sea
source in the Jomda district
31 ° 44 ′ 49 ″  N , 97 ° 47 ′ 27 ″  E
muzzle in the Karub district in the Mekong Coordinates: 31 ° 57 ′ 55 "  N , 96 ° 56 ′ 32"  E 31 ° 57 ′ 55 "  N , 96 ° 56 ′ 32"  E

Tibetan name
Tibetan script :
ཀེ་ ཆུ
Wylie transliteration :
ke chu
Chinese name
Simplified :
盖 曲
Pinyin :
Gài Qū

The Gai Qu ( Chinese  盖 曲 , Pinyin Gài Qū ; Tib. ཀེ་ ཆུ Tib. Ke chu, officially Gê Qu ) is a tributary of the Mekong in Jomda County and in the Karub District in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China .

On some maps the river is called after the confluence with the Zi Qu near the village of Batong (t 通 村 , Bātōng cūn - location ) in the municipality of Mianda up to the confluence with the Mekong Zi Qu ( Chinese 子 曲 , Pinyin Zǐ Qū ; tib.rtsi chu, ).  

Individual evidence

  1. Zang-Han da cidian (large Tibetan-Chinese dictionary), p. 26 b
  2. Tactical Pilotage Chart of the US Air Force, sheet H-10B (1988) online

Remarks

  1. z. B. OpenStreetMap , Soviet general staff map