Yuan River

Map of the catchment area and the course of the River Yuanjiang (light yellow)

The Yuan Jiang (Chinese沅江, Pinyin Yuanjiang ) or Yuan Shui (沅水, Yuán Shuǐ ), a navigable tributary of the Yangtze River, is named after the Xiangjiang the second largest river in China's Hunan Province and the seventh largest tributary of the Yangtze River.

The Yuanjiang rises in Guizhou Province and ends in the north in the Hunan Dongting Lake, on the water in the Yangtze River flows be. Its river system has a total length of 1033 kilometers, of which 568 in Hunan; The catchment area covers 89 163 square kilometers, the average discharge is 2158 m³ / s