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Map of the Min River drainage basin. The Min River (Chinese: 岷 江; pinyin: Mínjiāng) is a 735-kilometer-long river (457 mi) in central Sichuan province, China. It is a tributary of the upper Yangtze River, which flows through Chengdu and joins at Yibin. Within China, it was traditionally taken as the main course of the upper Yangtze before ...
The Min River (Chinese: Mǐn Jiāng) [note 1] is a 505 kilometres (314 mi)-long river in Fujian province, People's Republic of China. It is the largest river in Fujian, and an important water transport channel. Most of northern and central Fujian is within its drainage area. The provincial capital, Fuzhou, sits on the lower Min River, with its ...
Min River (Fujian) (闽江), in Fujian, China; See also. Min (disambiguation) This page was last edited on 29 December 2019, at 11:31 (UTC). Text is available under ...
During the East Han dynasty a statue of Li Bing was placed in the river to monitor the water flow, with the level rising above his shoulders to indicate flood and falling beneath his calves to indicate drought. Recovered from the river in 1974 and placed on display in the main hall, this is the oldest known stone statue of a human in China. [37 ...
Jiuzhaigou, compared with other high-traffic scenic spots in China, can be difficult to reach by land. The majority of tourists reach the valley by a ten-hour bus ride from Chengdu along the Min River canyon, which is prone to occasional minor rock-slides and, in the rainy season, mudslides that can add several
The Min mountain range is a southern prolongation of the Kunlun Mountains that separates the basins of two major rivers of Sichuan: the Min River (to the west) and the Jialing River (to the east). Both rivers flow in the general southern direction, and are tributaries of the Yangtze. The Min Mountains are part of a wider mountainous region:
[7] The Min River is 735 km long and it is the largest and the longest of the Yangtze tributaries. The Qin administration was more experienced working with arid lands than wet rice paddies. Additionally, slowing the water current reduced the river's ability to carry away large amounts of sediment.
The Mingjiang Bridge, also known as the Qingzhou Bridge, is a cable-stayed bridge over the Min River in Fuzhou, Fujian, China. [3] The bridge is main span is 605 metres (1,985 ft) placing it among the largest cable-stayed bridges in the world, the span arrangement is 250+605+250 m.