Dadu River
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river in Sichuan province, southern China
Key facts
- Native name
- Dadu He ( Chinese )
- Location
- 33°23′16″N 100°17′32″E / 33.38778°N 100.29222°E / 33.38778; 100.29222 , Darlag County , Qinghai
- Elevation
- 4,579 m (15,023 ft)
- Length
- 1,076 km (669 mi)
- Basin size
- 92,000 km (36,000 sq mi)
- Average
- 1,760 m /s (62,000 cu ft/s)
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- watershed area
- 77700
- Commons category
- Dadu River (Sichuan)
- mouth of the watercourse
- Min River
- described by source
- Gujin Tushu Jicheng
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Encyclopedic overview
The Dadu River (Chinese: 大渡河; pinyin: Dàdù Hé; Wade–Giles: Tatu Ho, Yi: ꍩꍠꒉꄿ, romanized: Chot Zhyr Yy Dda), known in Tibetan as the Gyelmo Ngul Chu (Tibetan: རྒྱལ་མོ་རྔུལ་ཆུ་, Wylie: rgyal mo rngul chu), is a major river located primarily in Sichuan province, southwestern China. The Dadu flows from the eastern Tibetan Plateau into the Sichuan Basin where it joins with the Min River, a tributary of the Yangtze River. Measured from its geographic source, the Dadu is actually longer than the Min River, with a total length of 1,076 km (669 mi) and thus forms the main stem of the Min River system.
Shuangjiangkou Dam, expected to be the tallest dam in the world, is being built on the Dadu River.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dadu River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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