Zi River

Map of the catchment area and the course of the river Zi ( = Zi Shui / Zi Jiang) and its two sources (light brown).

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The river Zi Shui (Chinese资 水/资 水;. Eng Zi River / Tzu River) or Zi Jiang (资 江/资 江, Zi Jiang, Tzu ¹ Chiang ¹), also Zi River, in central Hunan is one of the most important tributaries of lake Dongting ( Dongting Hu). It is 653 km long and has a catchment area of ​​28,100 square kilometers.

He has a southern and a western source river. The southern source in the south of the district of Ziyuan, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the western in Autonomous County Chengbu Miao ( Hunan ). Only from Shuangjiangkou in Shaoyang county it is named Shui Zi or Zi Jiang.