Friday, June 10, 2011

Dams on the Yangtze River

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Three_Gorges_dam.jpg/220px-Three_Gorges_dam.jpgAs of 2007, there are two dams built on the Yangtze river: Three Gorges Dam and Gezhouba Dam with a third one, Xiluodu Dam under construction. More dams are in planning stage, such as Wudongde, Baihetan, and Xiangjiaba.




* Tributaries

The Yangtze River has over 700 tributaries. The major tributaries (listed from upstream to downstream) with the locations of where they join the Yangtze are:
  • Yalong River (Yunnan Province)
  • Min River (Yibin, Sichuan Province)
  • Jialing River (Chongqing)
  • Wu Jiang
  • Qing Jiang (Yidu, Hubei Province)
  • Yuan River
  • Zi Shui
  • Xiang River(Yueyang, Hunan)
  • Han River (Wuhan, Hubei)
  • Gan River (near Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province.)

 



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