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The Yangtze flows through a wide array of ecosystems and is habitat to several endemic and threatened species, including the Chinese alligator, the narrow-ridged finless porpoise, and also was the home of the now extinct Yangtze river dolphin (or baiji) and Chinese paddlefish, as well as the Yangtze sturgeon, which is extinct in the wild.
The name Jiangnan is the pinyin romanization of the Standard Mandarin pronunciation of 江南, meaning "[Lands] South of the [Yangtze] River". [2] Although jiang is now the common Chinese word for any large river, it was historically used in Ancient Chinese to refer specifically to the Yangtze River, which defines the Jiangnan region.
The Xiang River is the chief river of the Lake Dongting drainage system of the middle Yangtze, the largest river in Hunan Province, China. It is the second-largest tributary (after the Min River ) in terms of surface runoff , the fifth-largest tributary by drainage area of the Yangtze tributaries.
The Jialing River, a tributary of the Yangtze River, in Chongqing, China, runs dry as the country experiences record temperatures and droughts.
The headwaters of the Yangtze, including the Ulan Moron ("Tuotuo"), Dangqu, Buqu, and Garqu. The Dangqu (Chinese: 当曲, p Dāngqū) or Dam Chu (Tibetan: འདམ་ཆུ, w 'Dam Chu, lit. "Marshy River") is a 234 km (145 mi) river in the Qinghai province of the People's Republic of China.
The Jinsha River (Chinese: 金沙江; pinyin: Jīnshājiāng; lit. 'Gold Sand River', [1] Tibetan: Dri Chu, འབྲི་ཆུ, Yi: ꀉꉷꏁꒉ, romanized: Axhuo Shyxyy) or Lu river, is the Chinese name for the upper stretches of the Yangtze River. It flows through the provinces of Qinghai, Sichuan, and Yunnan in western China.
(The Wu River (乌江) flows past Guizhou and empties into the Yangtze River at Fuling (涪陵), of Chongqing Municipality). Downstream, the Chuanjiang passes the Wu Mountains—the second ladder of the Chinese mainland—which form the Qutang Gorge ( 瞿塘峡 ), the Wu Gorge ( 巫峡 ), and the Xiling Gorge ( 西陵峡 ) along the Yangtze ...
Chishui River (Chinese: 赤水河; pinyin: Chìshuǐ Hé; historically, 赤水; Chìshuǐ [1]) is a major tributary of the upper Yangtze. Its name literally means "red water river"/"red river" [ a ] because it shows reddish color in lower stream due to a large sediment concentration.