Yarkant (river)
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Yarkant Jarkend, Yarkand |
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| location | Xinjiang ( PR China ) | |
| River system | Tarim | |
| Drain over | Tarim → Lop Nor desert | |
| Headwaters | Northeast side of the Rimo massif 35 ° 33 ′ 2 ″ N , 77 ° 28 ′ 51 ″ E |
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| confluence | with the Aksu to Tarim Coordinates: 40 ° 27 ′ 46 ″ N , 80 ° 52 ′ 10 ″ E 40 ° 27 ′ 46 ″ N , 80 ° 52 ′ 10 ″ E
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| length | 1070 km | |
| Left tributaries | Shaksgam , Taxkorgan | |
| Right tributaries | Kulangnagu | |
| Big cities | Yarkant | |
 Course of the Yarkant |
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The 1070 km long Yarkant or Jarkend (also called Jarkand or Yarkand ; Chinese 叶尔羌 河 , Pinyin Yè'ěrqiāng Hé ; Uighur يەكەن دەرياسى, Yengi Yəkən Dəryasi ) is one of the source rivers of the Tarim in China ( Asia ).
The river arises in the far west of the People's Republic in the Uyghur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang . Its source is on the northeast side of the Rimo massif . From there it flows in a northerly direction through the high mountains, already forming a little below its source the border to the east bordering Kunlun Shan and reaches the western part of the Tarim Basin . In it it flows through the Yarkant district at an altitude of 1270 m and the western part of the Taklamakan desert in a northeastern direction. The Yarkant flowed into the Tarim some south of Aksu as long as it still had water there.
The Yarkant still supplied the Tarim annually with 1–1.5 billion m³ of water in the 1950s, but from 1979 it no longer had any water in the lower reaches; as a result, 59% of the Euphrates poplar population died there by 1993.
