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Encyclopedia > Yarlung Tsangpo River (Tibet)
Yarlung Tsamgpo River, whitewater
Yarlung Tsangpo River, sediment

The Yarlung Tsangpo River originates upstream from the Yarlung Tsangpo Canyon, Tibet. It then passes through the state of Arunachal Pradesh, India, where it is known as the Dihang. Downstream from Arunachal Pradesh the river becomes wider and at this point is called the Brahmaputra River. It eventually disgorges into the Bay of Bengal. Since the river crosses international boundaries, it has at least three different names in different languages.[1] Whitewater is formed in a rapid, when a rivers gradient drops enough to form a bubbly, or aerated and unstable current; the frothy water appears white. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 534 pixel Image in higher resolution (2000 × 1334 pixel, file size: 786 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Tibet Yarlung Tsangpo... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 534 pixel Image in higher resolution (2000 × 1334 pixel, file size: 786 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Tibet Yarlung Tsangpo... This article or section cites very few or no references or sources. ... The Yarlung Tsangpo Canyon, or the Tsangpo Gorge along the Brahmaputra in Tibet is regarded by many as the largest canyon on Earth, and is also the deepest canyon of the world. ... Tibet (older spelling Thibet; Tibetan: བོད་; Wylie: Bod; Lhasa dialect IPA: [; Simplified and Traditional Chinese: 西藏, Hanyu Pinyin: XÄ«zàng; also referred to as 藏区 (Simplified Chinese), 藏區 (Traditional Chinese), ZàngqÅ« (Hanyu Pinyin), see Name section below) is a plateau region in Central Asia and the indigenous home to the Tibetan people. ... Arunachal Pradesh   (Hindi: Aruṇācal PradeÅ›; Chinese: 藏南 Zangnan or South Tibet) is one of the seven northeastern states of India. ... Brahmaputra A dugout with pilot in Chitwan. ... Look up Bay of Bengal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...


The Yarlung Tsangpo River is the highest major river in the world. In Tibet the river flows down a gentle incline for more than 1,000 km. As it descends, the surrounding vegetation changes from cold desert to arid steppe to deciduous scrub vegetation. It ultimately transitions into a conifer and rhododendron forest. The tree line is approximately 3,200 metres.[2] Sedimentary sandstone rocks found near the Tibetan capital of Lhasa contain grains of magnetic minerals that record the Earth's alternating magnetic field current.[1] This article is about arid terrain. ... A steppe in Western Kazakhstan in early spring In physical geography, a steppe (Russian: - , Ukrainian: - , Kazakh: - ), pronounced in English as , is a plain without trees (apart from those near rivers and lakes); it is similar to a prairie, although a prairie is generally considered as being dominated by tall grasses... Orders & Families Cordaitales † Pinales   Pinaceae - Pine family   Araucariaceae - Araucaria family   Podocarpaceae - Yellow-wood family   Sciadopityaceae - Umbrella-pine family   Cupressaceae - Cypress family   Cephalotaxaceae - Plum-yew family   Taxaceae - Yew family Vojnovskyales † Voltziales † The conifers, division Pinophyta, are one of 13 or 14 division level taxa within the Kingdom Plantae. ... Subgenera Azaleastrum Candidastrum Hymenanthes Mumeazalea Pentanthera (Azaleas) Rhododendron Therorhodion Tsutsusi (Azaleas) Vireya Source: RBG, Edinburgh Rhododendron (from the Greek: rhodos, rose, and dendron, tree) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Ericaceae. ... Red sandstone interior of Lower Antelope Canyon, Arizona, worn smooth due to erosion by flash flooding over millions of years Sandstone is a sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-size mineral or rock grains. ... Lhasa (Tibetan: ལྷ་ས་; Wylie: lha sa; Lhasa dialect IPA: [; Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ), sometimes spelled Llasa, is the traditional capital of Tibet and the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the Peoples Republic of China. ... In physics, magnetism is a phenomenon by which materials exert an attractive or repulsive force on other materials. ... This template is misplaced. ...

Yarlung Tsangpo Canyon with Mount Namcha Barwa in the center.

The Yarlung Tsangpo Canyon, formed by a horseshoe bend in the river where it flows around Namcha Barwa, is the deepest, and possibly longest canyon in the world.[3] The river has been a challenge to whitewater kayakers because of the extreme conditions of the river.[4] The Yarlung Tsangpo Canyon, or the Tsangpo Gorge along the Brahmaputra in Tibet is regarded by many as the largest canyon on Earth, and is also the deepest canyon of the world. ... Namcha Barwa is a mountain in the Tibetan Himalaya. ... The Yarlung Tsangpo Canyon, or the Tsangpo Gorge along the Brahmaputra in Tibet is regarded by many as the largest canyon on Earth, and is also the deepest canyon of the world. ... Namcha Barwa is a mountain in the Tibetan Himalaya. ... Kayak is also the name of a Dutch progressive rock band. ...


The Yarlung Tsangpo River has three major waterfalls.[5] The largest waterfall of the river, the "Hidden Falls", was not discovered until 1998.[6]


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Image File history File links Commons-logo. ... The Wikimedia Commons (also called Wikicommons) is a repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files. ... The Yarlung Tsangpo Canyon, or the Tsangpo Gorge along the Brahmaputra in Tibet is regarded by many as the largest canyon on Earth, and is also the deepest canyon of the world. ... Tibet Autonomous Region, Qinghai Province and Sichuan Province of China lie on the Tibetan Plateau. ...

Notes

  1. ^ a b Yarlung Tsangpo River in China. Atmospheric Data Science Center. Retrieved on 2007-06-27.
  2. ^ Yarlung Tsangpo arid steppe (PA1022). worldwildlife.org. Retrieved on 2007-06-29.
  3. ^ The World's Biggest Canyon. www.china.org. Retrieved on 2007-06-29.
  4. ^ Press release of successful kayak run
  5. ^ Hidden Falls. WWD - Waterfall Database. Retrieved on 2007-06-30.
  6. ^ Discovery of "Hidden Falls"

 

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