Rivers

**Yellow River (Huang He)**
This is a picture of the dikes Yellow river or the Huang He which stop the flooding into all of the crops. http://www.citg.tudelft.nl/live/binaries/821ac8cb-274b-404b-9ba3-e756c43bc300/img/YR_dikesLYR.gif

"China's Sorrow" • The river gets it's name from the fine yellow dust (loess) that is blown down from the northern grasslands (steppes.) •This river has an unusually high silt (soil carried in the water) content of ten to forty percent. •Rice is grown on the land along the fertile bank of the river and the crop is irrigated by the river. •The farmers built dikes (walls to protect from flooding, a.k.a. levees) to protect their land from the frequent floods. These dikes caused loess and silt to build up on the river bottom, flood the river, and break through the dikes. Higher dikes did not solve the problem, and today the river flows ten to forty feet above the land outside the dikes. The periodic flooding was nicknamed "China's Sorrow".

•This river, along with the Yangtze river, is an important commercial waterway for trade.

Yangtzee River (Chang Jiang)
This is a picture of the Yangtze River

The Yangtzee is the longest river in Asia and the third longest river in the world, it is 3,915 miles. Throughout the river the evolution drops from above 5000 m to less than 1000 m. This river also passes through the Three Gorges (Qutang, Xiling, Wu). Along the banks of the river there are many broad plains, expansive deserts, and lofty mountain ranges, including vast areas of inhospitable terrain, a region of fertile lowlands, foothills, steppes, and subtropical areas, sunken basins, rolling plateaus, and towering massifs. The Yangtze has eight principal tributaries, Yalung, Min, Jialing, Han, Wu, Yuan, Xiang, and Gan rivers. This is a map of the Yangtze River.

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