The Yellow River, with a total length of about 5464 kilometers. It is the second longest river in China and the birthplace of Chinese civilization. It is also affectionately called "Mother River".

The Yellow River originates from the Bayan Kara Mountains in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It is shaped like a "few" and flows from west to east through nine provinces (autonomous regions) including Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and Shandong, and finally flows into the Bohai Sea.

Because the middle section of the Yellow River flows through the Loess Plateau in China and carries a lot of sediment, it is also called the river with the largest sediment concentration in the world. Every year,1600 million tons of sediment is produced, of which1200 million tons flows into the sea, and the remaining 400 million tons remain in the lower reaches of the Yellow River for many years, forming an alluvial plain, which is very conducive to planting and producing a lot of food.

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Water resources of the Yellow River

1979 national water resources survey results: the theoretical water resources reserve of the Yellow River Basin is 40.548 million kilowatts, with an average annual power generation of 355.2 billion kwh, accounting for 6% of the theoretical water resources reserve of 592,265,438+800 million kwh. 73.3% of the hydraulic resources are distributed in the main stream of the Yellow River. The theoretical reserves of tributary hydraulic resources total10.782 million kilowatts, with an average annual power generation of 94.45 billion kwh.

There are 100 hydropower stations in the whole basin, with an installed capacity of more than 65,438+10,000 kilowatts, a total installed capacity of 27.277 million kilowatts, and an average annual power generation of10/3.72 billion kwh, accounting for 6. 1% of the country's exploitable hydropower resources.

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Yellow River