Wu River (Yangtze tributary)
tributary of the Yangtze in China
The Wu River (Chinese: 乌江; pinyin: Wū Jiāng) is the longest southern tributary of the Yangtze River. Nearly its entire length of 1,150 kilometres (710 mi) runs within the isolated, mountainous and ethnically diverse province of Guizhou. The river takes drainage from a 80,300-square-kilometre (31,000 mi2) watershed.
The river flows through the Liupanshui, Anshun, Guiyang (the capital), Qiannan, and Zunyi Districts of Guizhou. All nine regions of the province have at least partial drainage to the river.
Course
The river begins as the Sancha in western Guizhou and flows eastwards about 350 km (220 mi). It then bends north, west and south in a 300 km (190 mi) reach called the Yachi, and receives the Nanming River from the right. After the Yachi reach, the Wu makes a broad arc northeast through central Guizhou, picking up fifteen major tributaries including the Yu, Furong and Ya Rivers and flowing through several large hydroelectric dams. It then crosses the border into the provincial-level municipality of Chongqing, flows past Wulong, and empties into the Yangtze River at Fuling, some 50 miles (80 km) east-northeast of Chongqing. Part of the lower course of the river is flooded by the reservoir of Three Gorges Dam.
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