Yŏngsan River

Yŏngsan River

Korean  Yŏngsan-gang 

      river, southwestern South Korea. Rising in extreme northern Chŏlla-namdo (North Chŏlla Province), the Yŏngsan River flows southwest into the Yellow Sea near Mokp'o. The drainage basin is South Korea's most important rice growing area and was the scene in the mid-1970s of the construction of four multipurpose dams for both flood control and water storage.

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