Yalong Jiang (Sichuan)
| Yalong Jiang | ||
| Data | ||
| location | Qinghai , Sichuan ( PR China ) | |
| River system | Yangtze River | |
| Drain over | Yangtze River → East China Sea | |
| Headwaters | Bayan Har Mountains | |
| muzzle | east of Panzhihua in Jinsha Jiang Coordinates: 26 ° 36 ′ 20 ″  N , 101 ° 48 ′ 5 ″  E, 26 ° 36 ′ 20 ″  N , 101 ° 48 ′ 5 ″  E 
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| length | 1637 km | |
| Catchment area | 128,444 km² | |
| Discharge at the gauge at the mouth of the A Eo : 128,444 km² | MQ Mq | 1914 m³ / s 14.9 l / (s km²) | 
| Left tributaries | Xianshui He , Anning He | |
| Right tributaries | Litang He | |
| Reservoirs flowed through | Lianghekou Dam , Ertan Dam , Jinping I , Jinping II , Guandi Dam | |
| Tibetan name | 
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| Tibetan script : 
ཉག་ ཆུ
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| Wylie transliteration : nyag chu | 
The Yalong Jiang ( 雅礱江 / 雅砻江 , Ya-lung Chiang , English Yalong River / Ya-lung River ) is a 1,637 kilometer long river in China . It has its source in the Bayan Har Mountains ( Bayan Har Shan ) in the south of Qinghai Province and flows through the west of Sichuan Province .
It is a tributary of the Jinsha Jiang (upper reaches of the Yangtze River ), into which it flows in the area of Panzhihua (the former Dukou) on the border with Yunnan . In the middle and lower reaches it flows through narrow, often ravine-like valley valleys, which hardly offer any space for agricultural land and larger settlements.
Its tributaries include Xianshui He鲜 水河, Liqiu He力 丘 河, Litang He理塘 河, Jiulong He九龙 河 and Anning He安宁 河.
Dams
The Yalong is to be dammed in the Jinping I dam, the Lianghekou dam and several others. The Ertan Dam has already been completed .
A total of 23 dams, each with an attached hydropower plant, are planned along the course of the Yalong Jiang.
The dams in the direction of discharge are:
| dam | Power in MW | phase | 
|---|---|---|
| Yangri dam | 1 | planned | 
| Danikanduo dam | 7.2 | planned | 
| Wenbosi Dam | 740 | planned | 
| Renqingling Dam | 300 | planned | 
| Reba dam | 250 | planned | 
| Ada dam | 250 | planned | 
| Geni dam | 200 | planned | 
| Tongha dam | 200 | planned | 
| Yingda Dam | 500 | planned | 
| Xinlong Dam | 500 | planned | 
| Gongke dam | 400 | planned | 
| Gongbagou dam | 500 | planned | 
| Lianghekou Dam | 3000 | under construction | 
| Yagen dam | 1500 | planned | 
| Lenggu Dam | 2300 | planned | 
| Mengdigou Dam | 1700 | planned | 
| Yangfanggou Dam | 2200 | planned | 
| Kala dam | 1060 | planned | 
| Jinping I Dam | 1200 | completed | 
| Jinping II dam | 4400 | completed | 
| Guandi dam | 2400 | completed | 
| Ertan dam | 3300 | completed | 
| Tongzilin dam | 600 | under construction | 

