The Chindwin River is a river in Myanmar and the major tributary of the Irrawaddy River. The river flows 840 kilometres to join the Irrawaddy. A tributary (or affluent or confluent) is a contributory stream, a river that does not reach the sea, but joins another major river (a parent river), to which it contributes its waters, swelling its discharge. ... The Irrawaddy (newer spelling Ayeyarwaddy) is a river that flows through the centre of Myanmar (formerly Burma). It is Myanmars most important commercial waterway. ...
Settlements along the Chindwin River include Shwebo, which was the royal capital from 1760-1764.
The ChindwinRiver is the second most important river in Myanmar as well as being the largest tributary of the mighty Ayeyarwaddy.
The Chindwin valley is an isolated area, and less populated than the lands along the Ayeyarwaddy, and even in this country of old traditions, the people of Chindwin live very conservatively and contentedly along this great river.
Chindwin is a river less travelled, and apart from its religious monuments it offers spectacular sceneries, an insight into the quiet lives of the villagers who are the proud inhabitants on the banks of this proud river.
However, she is the biggest tributary of the mighty Ayeyarwaddy and spills her strength into the longer river at a place not far from Mandalay, an old city that is the heart of Myanmar.
The ChindwinRiver is often overlooked but the region she feeds is a land rich in minerals, jungles, wild life, old cultures and more so, people who are proud to live along her banks.
She is a river worthy to be the pride of Myanmar, this beautiful and wilful lady of the wilds.
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