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Gong River | |
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Native name | 贡水 (Chinese) |
Location | |
Country | People's Republic of China |
Province | Jiangxi |
Physical characteristics | |
Mouth | |
• location | Gan River |
• coordinates | 27°18′30″N 115°30′53″E / 27.30833°N 115.51472°E |
Length | 313 km (194 mi) |
Basin size | 27074 km2 |
Basin features | |
River system | Yangtze River |
Tributaries | |
• left | Tao river |
• right | Ping river |
Gong River or Gongshui (Chinese: 贡水) is a river of China. It is part of the East China Sea basin as a headwater of the Gan River, which itself is a tributary of the Yangtze.[1]
The Gong river flows in Jiangxi province and is the main tributary of the Gan river, itself a tributary of the Yangtze. The river watershed has an area of 27,074 square kilometers (10,453 sq mi) (30% of the Gan river basin). The average flow of the river is 700 cubic meters per second (25,000 cu ft/s). Its main tributaries are the Tao and Ping rivers.
The river basin of the river extends between longitudes 114° 48′–116° 08′ and latitudes 24° 38′–26° 43 ′ N.