Cẩm Lệ River
River in Vietnam
The Cầu Đỏ River (Vietnamese: sông Cầu Đỏ) or Cẩm Lệ River (Vietnamese: sông Cẩm Lệ) is a river in Da Nang, Vietnam. It is formed where the Yên and the Túy Loan join on the boundary between the districts Hòa Vang and Cẩm Lệ. Its flow mostly follows this district boundary, to finally flow between the wards Hòa Xuân and Khuê Trung of Cẩm Lệ district, to the tripoint of the districts Cẩm Lệ, Ngũ Hành Sơn, and Hải Châu, where it joins the Đò Toản to form the Hàn River.
The Da Nang Water Supply Company, which supplies the city of Da Nang with freshwater, relies in big part on the Cầu Đỏ River for water intake. During the dry season, this is made difficult by saltwater intrusion, which has become worse since the construction of hydroelectric projects upstream.
Names
The two main names of the river are Cầu Đỏ and Cẩm Lệ. Many sources consider these to be equivalent and use either name for the entirety of the river. The official names, according to the Da Nang city authorities, are Cầu Đỏ from the start of the river until Nguyễn Tri Phuong bridge (which is the part that flows along the boundary between Hòa Vang and Cẩm Lệ districts), after which the name is Cẩm Lệ until it ends in the Hàn River (which is the part that flows through Cẩm Lệ district).
There is agreement that the name Cẩm Lệ comes from a fruit that was sold there, but there is disagreement on which fruit exactly: a black-skinned bitter melon or a type of lychee. A folk etymology traces the name to the tears (Vietnamese: lệ) shed for a girl named Cẩm.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Cẩm Lệ River” as river in Vietnam. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as river in Vietnam. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q131160970.
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