Dams on the Yangtze River

As 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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