Chindwin River
The Chindwin River is the largest tributary of the Irrawaddy and is 1,207 kilometers long. The river originates in the broad Hugawng Valley of Kachin State where the Tanai, the Tabye, the Tawan, and the Taron rivers meet. The Tanai exits the Hukawng valley through the Taron (or Turong) valley and through a sharp defile in the river. It then takes on the name of Chindwin, and maintains a general...
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The United Nations Environment Programme’s World Conservation Monitoring Centre lists the Irrawaddy as one of the world’s top thirty high priority river basins due to both its support of high biodiversity and high vulnerability to future pressures. The river is home to 79 known fish species and as of 2002 there were four known endemic bird areas in the basin. The biodiversity of the river is...
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At 4,800 kilometers, the Mekong River flows through six countries in the heart of Southeast Asia. It is the region’s longest river, stretching from its source in Tibet to the delta of Vietnam. Over 60 million people depend on the Mekong and its tributaries for food, water, transportation and many other aspects of their daily lives and accordingly the river holds a special cultural significance....
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The Salween River begins its journey at 4,000 meters above sea level, high on the Tibetan Plateau in the Himalayas. It runs through the mountains of Yunnan Province in China, passing through Shan and Karenni states in eastern Burma before forming the border between Burma and Thailand for about 120 kilometers. It continues south through Burma before reaching the Andaman Sea in the Gulf of Martaban...
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Sittaung River lies in east-central Myanmar, rising northeast of Yamethin on the edge of the Shan Plateau and flowing south for 260 miles (420 km) to empty into the Gulf of Martaban of the Andaman Sea. The broad Sittaung River valley lies between the forested Bago Mountains on the west and the steep Shan Plateau on the east and holds the main road and railway from Yangon (Rangoon) to Mandalay as...
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