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A significant amount of land in the Yellow River's source area has been designated as the Sanjiangyuan ("'Three Rivers' Sources") National Nature Reserve, to protect the source region of the Yellow River, the Yangtze, and the Mekong. Flowing east at the eastern edge of the Amne Machin Mountains, the Yellow River enters Maqu County in Gansu.
The Yangtze flows through a wide array of ecosystems and is habitat to several endemic and threatened species, including the Chinese alligator, the narrow-ridged finless porpoise, and also was the home of the now extinct Yangtze river dolphin (or baiji) and Chinese paddlefish, as well as the Yangtze sturgeon, which is extinct in the wild.
The last records of Chinese paddlefish in the Yellow River basin and its estuary date back to the 1960s, although declines were realized between the 13th and 19th centuries. [24] [25] [30] Declines were significant throughout its primary range in the Yangtze basin, but annual captures of 25 tonnes continued into the 1970s. [4]
Yellow Sea: Primary river 131 Asia: Mahanadi: 2,562 900 560 141,600 Bay of Bengal: Primary river [106] ... Yangtze: Tributary river [100] 166 North America: Mobile ...
The International Hydrographic Organization defines the limits of the Yellow Sea ("Hwang Hai") as follows: [1]. The Yellow Sea is separated from the Sea of Japan by the boundary from the southern end of Haenam Peninsula in Jeollanamdo to Jeju Island and divided into the East China Sea by the boundary from the west end of Jeju Island to the Yangtze River estuary.
Jianghai Plain or River and Sea Plain [4] (short for Yangtze River-Yellow Sea Plain, Chinese: 江海平原; pinyin: Jiānghǎi píngyuán), also known as Nantong Plain (南通平原) or Rugao Plain (如皋平原), [5] is a plain is located in the Yangtze River Delta. [6] It is the estuary of the Yangtze River. [7]
[14] [15] The Yellow River was diverted to a new course over swathes of farmland until the repair of the dykes in January 1947. Five million civilians lived on such inundated land until 1947. [15] Inspired by the strategic outcome, dykes elsewhere in China, especially along the Yangtze, were subsequently destroyed by Chinese and Japanese forces ...
The Huai River, formerly romanized as the Hwai, is a major river in East China, about 1,110 km (690 mi) long with a drainage area of 174,000 km 2 (67,000 sq mi). [2] It is located about midway between the Yellow River and Yangtze River, [2] the two longest rivers and largest drainage basins in China.