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Encyclopedia > Lishui River

Lishui River (also known as Li River, Chinese language: 澧水,pinyin: lǐ-shǔi) is a river in Hunan province of China, one of the Yangtze river's four largest tributaries in the province.


Lishui has three origination places, the norh, the middle and the south. The north one is the most important place, origination from Shanmujie of Sangzhi county in Zhangjiajie. The middle one, origination from the east side of the Badagongshan Mountain in Sangzhi and the south place, origination from Longjiazhai of Yongshun County in the Tujia and Miao Autonomous profecture of Xiangxi. The three originations join the main river in Nancha of Sangzhi, then runs east.


It flows into the Dongting Lake at Xiaodukou in Jinshi. Its total length is 388 kilometres.


Cities along the river include

  • Zhangjiajie
  • Jishou
  • Shimen
  • Lixian
  • Jinshi
  • Changde

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Lishui River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (147 words)
Lishui River (also known as Li River, Chinese language: 澧水,pinyin: lǐ-shǔi) is a river in Hunan province of China, one of the Yangtze River's four largest tributaries in the province.
Lishui has three origination places, the norh, the middle and the south.
The middle one, origination from the east side of the Badagongshan Mountain in Sangzhi and the south place, origination from Longjiazhai of Yongshun County in the Tujia and Miao Autonomous profecture of Xiangxi.
Xiang River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (354 words)
The Xiang River (also as Xiangjiang River, or simply as Xiangjiang, Chinese: 湘江 or "湘水", pinyin: Xiāng Jiāng, Xiāng Shǔi; Wade-Giles: "hsiāng chiāng" or "hsiāng shuǐ"), in older transliterations as the Siang River or Hsiang River, is a river in southern China.
People say the Xiang and the Lijiang River share the same origination because of connecting the two rivers of the Lingqu Canal that it is located in Xing'an county, and 70 per centage of water in Lingqu flows in the Xiang and 30 percent flows in the Lijiang.
The Zheng River (蒸水) converges with the Xiang in Chengbei District (城北區), Hengyang
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