Dadu River (Taiwan)
24°10′11.5″N 120°31′05.7″E / 24.169861°N 120.518250°E
| Dadu River Wu River Black River | |
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Sunset at the lower reaches of Wu River | |
Dadu River in Taiwan | |
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| Location | |
| Country | Taiwan |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Central Mountain Range: western foothills of Hehuanshan |
| Mouth | |
• location | Taiwan Strait: Taichung City/Changhua County border |
| Length | 124 km (77 mi) |
| Basin size | 2,025.6 km2 (782.1 sq mi) |
| Dadu River | |||||||||||||
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| Chinese | 大肚溪 | ||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Big Belly Creek | ||||||||||||
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| Black River | |||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 烏溪 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 乌溪 | ||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Black Creek Raven Creek Crow Creek | ||||||||||||
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The Dadu River also called the Wu River, is a major river located in the Northwest of Taiwan. With a total length of 124 km (77 mi) it is sixth-longest river on the island. [1]
Names edit
The Dadu River is named after a former port near its mouth, now the Dadu District of Taichung.
It is also known as the Black River,[2] a calque of its Hokkien name. The same name appears in English as the Wu River, the pinyin romanization of its Mandarin pronunciation. It received the name from the many black-winged birds that used to live along the river.[3]
Geography edit
It flows through Taichung City, Changhua County, and Nantou County for 119 kilometers (74 mi).[4][5][6] It is the 6th-longest river on Taiwan Island and the 4th-largest in terms of drainage area.[4]
See also edit
References edit
Citations edit
- ^ "GeoNames Search". Geographic Names Database. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, USA. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
- ^ EB (1879), p. 416.
- ^ Huang (2016), p. 67.
- ^ a b "Geography & demographics". . Executive Yuan. 2015. pp. 40–53. ISBN 978-986-04-6013-1. Archived from the original on 2016-05-31. Retrieved 2016-05-01.
- ^ (in Chinese). Water Resources Agency, Ministry of Economic Affairs. Archived from the original on 15 April 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
- ^ . About Changhua. Changhua County Government. 14 March 2012. Archived from the original on 26 August 2014. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
Bibliography edit
- , Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IX, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1879, pp. 415–17.
- Huang, Peter I-min (2016), "Mean Spirit, Environmental Justice, and Postcolonial Ecocriticism", Linda Hogan and Contemporary Taiwanese Writers: An Ecocritical Study of Indigeneities and Environment, Lanham: Lexington Books.