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Shiquan

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Shiquan is a mapped river in the YearMaps hydrographic index. River courses organise settlement, agriculture and frontier-making more durably than any political boundary, and this reach is indexed against the dams, lakes and cities within its catchment.

Feature Class
River
Coordinates
31.75°, 81.17°
7.0
Coordinates: 31.7505° N, 81.1661° ECountry: ChinaOpenStreetMap ↗

About Shiquan

Sengge Khabab (Tibetan: སེང་གེ་ཁ་འབབ།, Wylie: seng ge kha 'bab) or Shiquan He (Chinese: 獅泉河; pinyin: Shīquán Hé) is a river in the Ngari Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China that is the source stream of the Indus River, one of the major trans-Himalayan rivers of Central and South Asia. The river rises in the mountain springs north of the Manasarovar lake, and 300 km (190 mi) downstream joins the Gar Tsangpo river near the village of Tashigang. Although it is thereafter called the Indus internationally, the Tibetans continue to regard the combined river to be Sênggê Zangbo as it flows into Ladakh.

The town of Shiquanhe, the administrative headquarters of the Ngari Prefecture, is located in the lower valley of Sengge Zangbo, and is named after the river.

The Sengge Zangbo drains an area of 27,450 square kilometres (10,600 sq mi), and covers a length of 430 kilometres (270 mi). Main tributaries include Gar Tsangpo. Other tributaries include the Langqu River, the Chizuo Tsangpo River, and the Charinongqu River.

Encyclopedic summary adapted from Wikipedia: Sengge Zangbo (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Shiquan: Key Facts

Key facts about Shiquan
MouthIndus River
Drainage systemIndus basin

Facts from Wikidata Q7666170 (CC0).

Major River Dossiers

Hand-written studies of the great river systems of history.

Connected Reaches

Nearby watercourses in the same drainage network.

Water Bodies in the Catchment

Settlements Along the Reach

Hydraulic Infrastructure Nearby

Surrounding Terrain

Shiquan: Quick Answers

Where is Shiquan?
Shiquan is located in China, at 31.7505° N, 81.1661° E.
Are there dams on the Shiquan?
No dam on the Shiquan is recorded in the YearMaps dam index, which covers major structures only.