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The Red River remained the main commercial travel route between the French Indochina and Yunnan until the opening of the Kunming–Haiphong Railway in 1910. Although French steamers would be able to go as far upstream as Lao Cai during the rainy season, [ 6 ] during the dry season (November to April) steamship would not go upstream of Yên Bái ...
The Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas (Chinese: 云南三江并流; pinyin: Yúnnán Sānjiāng Bìngliú) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Yunnan province, China. It lies within the drainage basins of the upper reaches of the Jinsha ( Yangtze ), Lancang ( Mekong ) and Nujiang ( Salween ) rivers, in the Yunnan section of the ...
Its name literally means "red water river"/"red river" [a] because it shows reddish color in lower stream due to a large sediment concentration. With the source in Yunnan Province , it forms part of the boundary between the provinces of Guizhou and Sichuan and flows into Yangtze River in Sichuan.
It derives its name from the Red River (Asia), [2] which is known as the Yuan River (元江) in Yunnan, and is an important provincial crossroads for access to Southeast Asia. Administrative divisions
A typical sand mining operation in the Red River near Manhao. The Madushan Dam is located a few kilometers upstream from Manhao; the dame is named after the nearby Madushan Village. Two bridges span the Red River in Manhao. The high Manhao Bridge is a few kilometers upstream from the town; it carries Yunnan State Route 212 (S212).
The Tuotuo River, a headwater stream of the Yangtze River, known in Tibetan as Maqu, or the "Red River" The first turn of the Yangtze at Shigu (石鼓) in Yunnan , where the river turns 180 degrees from southbound to northbound
Topographic map showing the Red River and fault The Red River (Nansha Reservoir) seen from the slope of its deep valley, south of Potou Township, Jianshui County. The Red River Fault or Song Hong Fault (Vietnamese: Đới Đứt Gãy Sông Hồng) is a major fault in Yunnan, China and Vietnam which accommodates continental China's (Yangtze plate) southward movement. [1]
The Madushan Dam is a gravity dam on the Honghe (Red) River in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province.. The name of the dam comes from the nearby village of Madushan, located on the left bank of the river upstream from the dam.