Yili River
| Yili River | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Native name | 以禮河 (Chinese)[2] |
| Location | |
| Country | Yunnan Province[1] |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mouth | |
• coordinates | 26°46′49″N 102°59′30″E / 26.7804°N 102.9916°E |
| Length | 122 kilometers[3] |
The Yili River or Yili He[4] (Chinese: 以禮河),[5] originally named "Yini River" (以尼河),[6] from the Yi language. In the noun "Yini", "Yi" refers water, and "Ni" refers willow, which means to insert willows by the river, [7] so it is also called "Willow River" (柳树河). [8]
Located in Yunnan Province of People's Republic of China, [9] it is a river in the Yangtze River basin, which merges into the right bank of the Jinsha River[10] and belongs to the Jinsha River system.
Yili River is 122 kilometers long, [11] with a drainage area of 2,558 square kilometers[12] and an average annual flow of 39 cubic meters per second.
References
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- ^ Karst Research Group, Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (1979). Chinese Karst Research. China Science Publishing & Media.
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- ^ Nanny Kim (9 December 2019). Mountain Rivers, Mountain Roads: Transport in Southwest China, 1700‐1850. Brill Publishers. pp. 375–. ISBN 978-90-04-41617-8.
- ^ "Huize County". China News Service. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
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- ^ Qujing Regional History. Yunnan People's Publishing House. 1995. ISBN 978-7-222-02233-1.
- ^ Xuezhong Yu; Daming He; Phouvin Phousavanh (12 September 2018). Balancing River Health and Hydropower Requirements in the Lancang River Basin. Springer Science+Business Media. pp. 167–. ISBN 9789811315657.
- ^ History of Yunnan Province. Yunnan People's Publishing House. 1994. ISBN 9787222014954.
- ^ "Yili River Scenic Area". Sina. 2015-11-30.
- ^ "Walk to the source of the Pearl River". People's Daily. 2001-03-30.
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