Saturday, September 13, 2008

Yalong River

The Yalong River, also called Ya-lung River is an 822 mile long river in the Sichuan province of southern China. It flows into the Yangtze River along the border with Yunnan. It is a tributary of the Yangtze River. It's source is on the Tibet-Qinghai Plateau in southeast Qinghai, and its confluence with the Yangzte is in north central Yunnan.

A roadless section in the headwaters was north west of Ganzue was first explored by Chinese rafters in the late 1990's, and a roadless section in southwest Sichuan was first explored by American kayakers in 2006. See

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*"Yalong River." Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. 2005. Encyclop?dia Britannica Premium Service
16 July 2005 .

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