West river

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West River
Xi Jiang (西江)
The river system of the Pearl River. In the west the Nanpan as the headwaters of the west river.

The river system of the Pearl River.
In the west of the Nanpan as the source of the west river.

Data
location Guangdong , Guangxi ( PR China )
River system Pearl river
Drain over (partly Pearl River)  → South China Sea
Confluence of Xun Jiang and Gui Jiang near Wuzhou
23 ° 28 ′ 9 ″  N , 111 ° 18 ′ 44 ″  E
muzzle Main arm west of Macau into the South China Sea Coordinates: 22 ° 3 ′ 37 "  N , 113 ° 28 ′ 45"  E 22 ° 3 ′ 37 "  N , 113 ° 28 ′ 45"  E
Mouth height 0  m

length 2197 km
(including Xun Jiang , Qian Jiang , Hongshui He and Nanpan Jiang )
Drain MQ
 7410 m³ / s
Left tributaries He Jiang , Bei Jiang
Right tributaries Luoding He
Big cities Qujing , Laibin , Guigang , Wuzhou , Zhaoqing , Foshan , Jiangmen
Xi Jiang near Wuzhou, Guangxi 2018

Xi Jiang near Wuzhou , Guangxi 2018

The West River ( Chinese  西江 , Pinyin Xī Jiāng  - "Western River", obsolete after Stange Sikiang ) is the 2,197 km long main stream of the Pearl River in southern China ( Asia ). Its source river in this flow path is the Nanpan Jiang .

River course

The most important river in southern China has its source in the east of Yunnan Province in Lianwan Shan . Its source is located northeast of Kunming and a little north of Qujing . From there, its water crosses the provinces of Yúnnán , Guìzhōu and Guǎngxī , whose borders it partly forms, and Guǎngdōng : initially Nanpan , later Hongshui , Qian and Xun and finally Xi Jiang ( western river ), it flows first in the southern and then mainly in east directions to Wuzhou . Further east, opens in Sanshui the North River ( Chinese  北江 , Pinyin Bei Jiang  one - "Northern River"). There the west river divides: its main arm flows south over Jiangmen and reaches the South China Sea west of Macau ; In addition, the west river branches out as part of a bifurcation in a multi-armed river network, which merges in Guǎngdōng into the 177 km long Pearl River , which flows as a large estuary into the South China Sea .

meaning

The West River , which is the third longest river in the People's Republic of China after the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers , is the second richest river in China with around 7,410 m³ per second. Its lower course within the Pearl River is considered one of the most active economic areas in the country with special economic zones (see there).

Tributaries

Cities

See also

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Sikiang . In Meyer's Großes Konversationslexikon , Volume 18. Leipzig 1909, p. 461