Irrawaddy River
Map of the catchment area
Mingun Temple in the Irrawaddy
Template: Infobox River / Obsolete
The 2170 km long Ayeyarwady also Ayeyarwaddy ( Irrawaddy so far, even Irrawaddy, Burmese ) is a river or stream in Southeast Asia.
River
His longest river source - the Tarong - rises in the circle Zayü in government Nyingchi of Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, in the southeast of the Himalayas around 380 kilometers north of the town of Myitkyina in Kachin State of Myanmar ( Burma). There lies its source between the 4097 meter high Tilalapass and the 4663 m high Namnipass. Its water flows first a small piece in a southeasterly direction on Chinese territory, and then finally get to Myanmar, whose main lifeline of the Irrawaddy is. At the common border of the two countries and also in northern Myanmar, it flows through the narrow valleys of the high mountains to meandering later in the lowlands via Mandalay to the south; in north-south direction he divided Myanmar in two halves. About 100 kilometers southwest of Mandalay opens its largest tributary, the Chindwin, a.
Finally, the Irrawaddy reached south of Henzada the Gulf of Martaban, part of the Andaman Sea; this is a marginal sea of the Indian Ocean. In its estuary, which is about 150 to 180 kilometers southwest of Yangon, the former capital of Myanmar, is located, the river forms a 40,000 km ² delta, which mainly used as a rice -growing region and by sediment deposits per year up to 60 meters in the Andaman Sea is postponed.
Catchment area and navigability
The Irrawaddy, whose catchment area covers about 413,674 km ², all year to about 1400 kilometers in length navigable from the estuary upstream to Bhamo in north-central Myanmar.
Dam project
Burma and China wanted to build a huge dam ( Myitsone power plant / Myitsone Dam / Myitsone project). On 30 September 2011, the Burmese government announced surprisingly the stop for the project .. The Mirror wrote:
" The main reason for the surprising imposition of the freeze by President Thein Sein was obviously a secret 900 -page report on the risks of the mega- dam on the Irrawaddy, who came in mid-September by a deliberate indiscretion to the public - ironically, probably by Chinese scientists. Since then, the dispute over the dam to the litmus test was escalated for reform and democratization in Burma. He also fired the smoldering debate about China's impact on the poor neighboring country with many natural resources. "