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Yalong River

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- right
  
Muli

Length
  
1,637 km

Source
  
Bayan Har Mountains

Mouth
  
Yangtze

- location
  
Panzhihua, Sichuan

Basin area
  
128,444 km²

Province
  
Sichuan

Country
  
China

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The Yalong River (Chinese: 雅砻江,  Yǎlóngjiāng,  Ya-lung Chiang) or Nyag Chu (Tibetan: ཉག་ཆུ་,  Nyag Qu) is an 822-mile (1,323 km) long river in Sichuan province in southwestern China. It is a tributary of the Yangtze River. Its source is on the Tibet-Qinghai Plateau in southeast Qinghai, and its confluence with the Yangtze is in Panzhihua in southwestern Sichuan.

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Map of Yalong River, China

Dams

The Yalong is being heavily developed, primarily for hydroelectric power. A total of 23 dams are completed, under construction or planned for the river. Those dams are listed below from downstream to upstream.

  • Tongzilin Dam – Under construction, 600 MW
  • Ertan Dam – Completed, 3,300 MW
  • Guandi Dam – Completed, 2,400 MW
  • Jinping 2 Dam – Completed, 4,400 MW
  • Jinping 1 Dam – Completed, 1,200 MW
  • Kala Dam – Programmed, 1,060 MW
  • Yangfanggou Dam – Programmed, 2,200 MW
  • Mengdigou Dam – Programmed, 1,700 MW
  • Lenggu Dam – Planned, 2,300 MW
  • Yagen Dam – Programmed, 1,500 MW
  • Lianghekou Dam – Under construction, 3,000 MW
  • Gongbagou Dam – Planned, 500 MW
  • Gongke Dam – Planned, 400 MW
  • Xinlong Dam – Planned, 500 MW
  • Yingda Dam – Planned, 500 MW
  • Tongha Dam – Planned, 200 MW
  • Geni Dam – Planned, 200 MW
  • Ada Dam – Planned, 250 MW
  • Reba Dam – Planned, 250 MW
  • Renqingling Dam – Planned, 300 MW
  • Wenbosi Dam – Planned, 150 MW
  • Danikanduo Dam – Planned, 7.2 MW
  • Yangri Dam – Planned, 1 MW

    • References

    Yalong River Wikipedia
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