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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 ...
Min River (闽江）in Nanping (南平). Railway bridge (闽江铁路大桥) at the back. The Min River (Chinese: Mǐn Jiāng) [note 1] is a 505-kilometre-long (314 mi) 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 ...
Map showing the plan of the Dujiangyan project Eastern Han (25–220 CE) statue of Li Bing, the hydraulic engineer responsible for Dujiangyan. During the Warring States period, people who lived in the area of the Min River were plagued by annual flooding.
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:
Min River or Minjiang may refer to: Min River (Sichuan) (岷江), in Sichuan, China; Min River (Fujian) (闽江), in Fujian, China; See also. Min (disambiguation)
Zipingpu Dam (紫坪铺水利枢纽) is an embankment dam on the Min River near the city of Dujiangyan, Sichuan Province [1] in southwest China. It consists of four generators with a total generating capacity of 760 MW. [2] Construction began in 2001 and was finished in late 2006.
The Pearl River map turtle, native to the Pearl River, recently got classified as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act. The new classification leaves the future of the One Lake ...
Minnesota River, Mankato, Minnesota. The Minnesota River (Dakota: Mnísota Wakpá) is a tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately 332 miles (534 km) long, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It drains a watershed of 14,751 square miles (38,200 km 2) in Minnesota and about 2,000 sq mi (5,200 km 2) in South Dakota and Iowa.