Jiulong River

Jiulong River

Chinese (Pinyin)  Jiulong Jiang , or  (Wade-Giles romanization)  Chiu-lung Chiang 

      river in southeastern Fujian (Fukien) province, china. The river rises in the mountains northwest of Zhangzhou, draining a large interior basin above Zhangping. The Xinqiao River and the Yanshi River and their tributaries drain the northeast and the southwest of the basin, respectively. The river then breaks through the coastal ranges in a generally southeasterly direction, parallel to the Boping Mountains, running northwest-southeast; the range forms the watershed between the Jiulong and the upper waters of the Han River. The Jiulong River discharges into the Xiamen (Amoy) estuary, receiving just above its mouth its largest southern tributary, the Xi River. The river itself is too swift and dangerous for navigation in its upper reaches, and junks and steamboats can use the estuary only as far as Shima (in Longhai municipality), and the Xi River as far as Zhangzhou, which was once an important seaport until the estuary silted up.

      Although the river is unnavigable, the Jiulong valley is an important route from Xiamen to the interior, and since 1957 a railway and a highway have paralleled its course.

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