Huang Shui
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| location | Gansu , Qinghai ( PR China ) | |
| River system | Yellow River | |
| Drain over | Yellow River → Yellow Sea | |
| source | at the southern foot of the Daban Shan Mountains | |
| muzzle | in Gansu in the Yellow River Coordinates: 36 ° 7 ′ 18 " N , 103 ° 21 ′ 43" E 36 ° 7 ′ 18 " N , 103 ° 21 ′ 43" E
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| length | 374 km | |
| Big cities | Xining | |
The Huang Shui River ( Chinese 湟 水 - "Yellow Water, Yellow River") or Huang River , Huangshui River , etc., also called Xining He ( 西宁 河 ), is the largest tributary of the upper reaches of the Yellow River (Huang Hey).
It rises in Haiyan County in the Tibetan Autonomous District of Haibei in the east of the Chinese province of Qinghai at the southern foot of the Daban Shan ( 大 坂 山 ) mountains belonging to the Qilian Shan ( 祁连山 ); later it flows into the Yellow River in Gansu . It is 374 km long. Its largest tributary is the Julag Qu འཇུ་ ལག་ ཆུ ། / Datong He 大 通河 .
Its river network includes: Zong Qu ( ཙོང་ ཆུ ། ) / Huang Shui ( 湟 水 ), Julag Qu ( འཇུ་ ལག་ ཆུ ། ) / Datong He ( 大 通河 ), Beichuan He ( 北 川河 ), Xichuan He ( 西川河 ), Nanchuan He ( 南川 河 ) and Sang Qu ( བསང་ ཆུ ། ) / Daxia He ( 大 夏河 ).
The area of the river is an important agricultural area.
Various Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures were common in its area (see Majiayao Culture , Banshan Machang Culture , Qijia Culture , Xindian Culture, and Kayue Culture ).
literature
- Cihai ("Sea of Words"), Shanghai cishu chubanshe, Shanghai 2002, ISBN 7-5326-0839-5
Footnotes
- ^ Cihai , p. 721.