Yellow River (which means Yellow River) - the second largest river in China. Opening of the reservoir on the famous river - a very impressive sight. Later opening gateways from the reservoir sweep gigantic flow of water and sand. This allows you to clear the water discharge from the Yellow River silt and prevent local flooding.
1. Water is flowing at an incredible rate: 2,600 cubic meters per second.
2. Translated from the Chinese by its name - Yellow River, due to the abundance of sediment, which give it a yellow tint waters. Directly through their sea in which flows a river called the Yellow.
3. Yellow River. View from space.
4. Yellow River originates in the eastern part of the Tibetan Plateau at an altitude of over 4,000 meters.
5. In order to protect from flooding the Yellow River and its tributaries are protected extensive system of dams, the total length of which is in the range of 5 thousand kilometers dam led to a very large floods and the movements of the channel. This led to the death of the grand number of people and gave the river the nickname Mountain of China.
6. Pool Yellow River provides a range of 140 million people with drinking water and water for irrigation.
7. From 602 BC. e. up to now observed 26 changes the channel and the Yellow River levees break 1573.
8. Hukou Waterfall on the border of Shaanxi and Shanxi.
9. A record annual rate of removal of the Yellow River silt river was seen in 1933, reaching 3.91 billion tons.
10. In 1938, there was a flood on the Yellow River, arranged by the nationalist government in central China during the first half of the Second Sino-Japanese War, in an attempt to halt the rapid advance of the Japanese forces. It was then called an act of environmental naikrupneyshim war in history.
11. Flooding destroyed and covered thousands of square miles of farmland and moved the mouth of the Yellow River for hundreds of miles to the south. Thousands of villages have been flooded or destroyed, and several million residents were forced to leave their own buildings, becoming refugees. The official estimate of those killed postwar nationalists Commission recognizes about that, actually drowned in a flood of 800,000 people, although these data have a chance to be underestimated.
12. At 11 AD. e. Huang has made a breakthrough in the fresh track, which resulted in a humanitarian disaster - one of the reasons that led to the fall of the dynasty Xin.
13. Limit movement of fixed bed of the Yellow River was within 800 kilometers
14. Currently plain Yellow River is densely populated. Between the settlements located along its banks, naikrupneyshimi considered Lanzhou, Yinchuan, Baotou, Luoyang, Zhengzhou, Kaifeng, Jinan.
