Zi Shui

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Zi Shui
Map with the catchment area and course of the river Zi (= Zi Shui / Zi Jiang) and its two source rivers (light brown).

Map with the catchment area and course of the river Zi (= Zi Shui / Zi Jiang) and its two source rivers (light brown).

Data
location Hunan ( PR China )
River system Yangtze River
Drain over Xiang Jiang (Dongting Lake)  → Yangtze River  → East China Sea
origin Confluence of two source rivers at Shuangjiangkou in Shaoyang County
muzzle in the Dongting Sea coordinates: 28 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  N , 112 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  E 28 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  N , 112 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  E

length 653 km
Catchment area 28,100 km²
The Zi Shui in Lengshuijiang

The Zi Shui in Lengshuijiang

The river Zi Shui ( Chinese  資 水  /  资 水 ; English Zi River / Tzu River) or Zi Jiang ( 資 江  /  资 江 , Zī Jiāng , Tzu¹ Chiang¹ ), also Zi River , in central Hunan is one of the most important Tributaries of Dongting Lake ( Dongting Hu ). It is 653 km long and has a catchment area of ​​28,100 square kilometers.

It has a southern and a western source river. The southern originates in the south of Ziyuan County of the Guangxi Autonomous Region of the Zhuang, the western one in the Chengbu Autonomous County of the Miao (in Hunan). It is only from Shuangjiangkou in Shaoyang County that it bears the name Zi Shui or Zi Jiang.

Web links

Commons : Zi Shui  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ Cihai , Shanghai cishu chubanshe, Shanghai 2002, ISBN 7-5326-0839-5 , p. 2272.