Chindwin River
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| Location | |
| Country | Myanmar |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Hukawng Valley, Kachin State |
| • coordinates | 27°3′26.7048″N 97°1′33.618″E / 27.057418000°N 97.02600500°E |
| • elevation | 1,134 m (3,720 ft) |
| Mouth | |
• location | Irrawaddy River |
• coordinates | 21°28′26″N 95°16′53″E / 21.47389°N 95.28139°E |
• elevation | 55 m (180 ft) |
| Length | 1,207 km (750 mi) |
| Basin size | 114,684.9 km2 (44,280.1 sq mi)[1] |
| Discharge | |
| • location | Near mouth |
| • average | (Period: 1967– 2009)149.7 km3/a (4,740 m3/s)[2] |
| Discharge | |
| • location | Monywa (74 km upstream of mouth; Basin size: 110,350 km2 (42,610 sq mi) |
| • average | (Period: 1966–2009)4,637 m3/s (163,800 cu ft/s)[2] |
| • minimum | (Period: 1966–2009)649 m3/s (22,900 cu ft/s)[2] |
| • maximum | (Period: 1966–2009)19,935 m3/s (704,000 cu ft/s)[2] |
| Discharge | |
| • location | Hkamti (Basin size: 27,420 km2 (10,590 sq mi) |
| • average | (Period: 1972–2009)2,290 m3/s (81,000 cu ft/s)[2] |
| • minimum | (Period: 1972–2009)109 m3/s (3,800 cu ft/s)[2] |
| • maximum | (Period: 1972–2009)14,150 m3/s (500,000 cu ft/s)[2] |
| Basin features | |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | Uyu |
| • right | Myittha |
The Chindwin River (Burmese: Chindwin Myin), also known as the Ningthi River[3][4] (Meitei: Ningthi Turel[5][6][a]), is a river flowing entirely in Myanmar, and the largest tributary of the country's main river, the Irrawaddy.[7] Its official name is also spelled Chindwinn.[8]
- ^ "Chindwin".
- ^ a b c d e f g Chikamori, Hidetaka; Liu, Heng; Daniell, Trevor. Myanmar 1. Chindwin River (PDF).
- ^ Pemberton, R. Boileau (1835). Report On The Eastern Frontier Of British India. Baptist Mission Press, Kolkata. pp. 19–20.; McCulloch, W.Maj (1859). Account of the Valley of Munnipore and of the Hill Tribes; with a Comparative Vocabulary of the Munnipore and other Languages. Bengal Printing Company Limited (Calcutta). pp. 8–40.; Siṃha, Kārāma Manimohana (1989), Hijam Irabot Singh and Political Movements in Manipur, B.R. Publishing Corporation, ISBN 978-81-7018-578-9
- ^ "Chindwin River | river, Myanmar | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
Called Ningthi by the Manipuris of India, it drains northwest through the Hukawng valley and then begins its 520-mile (840-kilometre) main course.
- ^ "GENERAL / LATEST NEWS: ENVIS Centre, Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Govt. of India". manenvis.nic.in. Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India. National Informatics Centre. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
The first being the Irrawaddy River Drainage system, where water flowing through the rivers of Manipur falls first into the Ningthi Turel (Chindwin River) and thereafter into the Irrawaddy River before discharging into the Bay of Bengal. . . . The Ningthi Turel (Chindwin River) System includes Tuijang, Taret and Maklang river basins.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ "AIMS writes to Waterways Minister to redevelop inland waterways". www.thesangaiexpress.com. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
The riverine systems of Manipur falls into two major systems namely the Irrawaddy River System, where water flowing through the rivers of Manipur falls first into the Ningthi Turel (Chindwin River) and thereafter into the Irrawaddy River before discharging into the Bay of Bengal ...
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 232.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-07-28. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
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