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The Salween (, ;, ; ; ; Shan: ;, ; also spelled Salwine ; Salawin, Thai ; Gyalmo Ngulchu, Tibetan ; Thanlwin, Burmese ; Nu Jiang, which means " Angry River " in Chinese ( The river is actually named after the Nu tribe that lives in the area but Chinese being no phonetic script had to use a character with a similar sound as Nu and that happen to be the character for angry ), is a river, about long, that flows from the Tibetan Plateau into the Andaman Sea in Southeast Asia.
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To the north and west it connects to a total of three states in the Union of Burma, namely the southern portion of Shan State ; Kayah State and Kawthoolei State via the West Thanon Thongchai Mountains and the rivers Salween and Moei which serve as natural boundaries between the countries.
Mawlamyine ( also spelled Mawlamyaing ; ; ; ; formerly Moulmein ) is the third largest city of Burma ( Myanmar ), situated 300 km south east of Yangon and 70 km south of Thaton, at the mouth of Thanlwin ( Salween ) river.
Salween and Shan
In the east the Salween and the Sittaung River run along the western side of the Shan Hills and the northern end of the Dawna Range.
Parallel mountain ranges extend from the Daen Lao Range ( ท ิ วเขาแดนลาว ), in the southern region of the Shan Hills, in a north / south direction, the Dawna Range ( ท ิ วเขาดอยมอนก ุ จ ู) forming the western border of Thailand between Mae Hong Son and the Salween River, the Thanon Thong Chai Range ( เท ื อกเขาถนนธงช ั ย ), the Khun Tan Range ( อยข ุ นตาน ), the Phi Pan Nam Range ( ท ิ วเขาผ ี ป ั นน ้ ำ ), as well as the western part of the Luang Prabang Range ( ะท ิ วเขาหลวงพระบาง ).
A sharp bend west and another south takes the Salween between the great mountain ranges of eastern Burma, the Daen Lao Range, a subrange of the Shan Hills, followed by the Dawna Hills in the east and the Karen Hills in the west, to join the Moei River from the east as it approaches Thailand, where it is called the Salawin.
World War II also marked the first time the Salween was used as a national border, as Burma ceded the lands of Shan State east of the Salween to Thailand, causing the river to become the national border for.
This range, the southwesternmost of the Shan Highland system, separates the Salween watershed from the Mekong watershed.
Aside from this wave, in around the year 1856 there arose much political unrest on the western banks of the Salween River which furthered the influx of peace-loving Shan, and again in 1876 when war broke out between the blood-princes of the principalities of Nai ( เม ื องนาย ) and Mok Mai ( เม ื องหมอกใหม ่) respectively.
It is located in the northern part of Shan State, with the Salween River to its west, and it shares a border with China's Yunnan Province in the east.
Salween and also
Fault lines are strewn throughout the Salween basin, also generally following the pattern of the mountains and river.
Many of the species are endemic to the Salween and the river also has one of the most diverse ranges of turtles, with between 10 and 15 species catalogued.
The erosion has also made the Salween very silty.
One of the largest problems is also that the dams would not have much positive impact on the people that actually live in the Salween region.
The relief of Kayah State is mountainous with the Dawna Range and the Karen Hills also known as " Kayah-Karen " mountains separated by the Salween River as it flows through Kayah State.
( Nujiang is also called Nu river or or Salween River.
He also discovered the Mekong and Salween rivers were, in fact, separate drainages with completely separate watersheds.
Salween and Salawin
Although the commonly accepted name is Salween, the river is known by a handful of other names regionally: Nu in China, Thanlwin in southern Burma, and Salawin on the border of Thailand and Burma.
Salween and Thai
With Chatrichalerm Yukol, he co-wrote the screenplay to the 1994 Thai action film, Salween.
Salween and Tibetan
The Salween, Mekong, Yangtze and Huang He ( Yellow River ) all originate from parts of the Tibetan plateau that are geologically distinct from the Himalaya mountains, and are therefore not considered true Himalayan rivers.
The Salween rises at in the Qinghai Mountains on the Tibetan Plateau, near the headwaters of the Mekong and Yangtze rivers.
Chushi Gangdruk " Four Rivers, Six Ranges " is the name traditionally given to the eastern Tibetan region of Kham where the gorges of the Salween ( Tib.
Salween and Thanlwin
* Mawlamyine ( Moulmein )-southeast-new 3223m Thanlwin Bridge ( Mawlamyine ) over the Thanlwin River ( Salween ) to Mottama ( Martaban ).
* Tai Ting: This group lives around the junction of the Ting River and Salween ( Thanlwin ) River, just to the west of Gengma County, Yunnan, China.
The main rivers in the state are Thanlwin ( Salween River ), Thaungyin ( Moei River ), Gyaing and Attaran.
Salween and Burmese
East of the Salween river, indigenous tribal guerilla groups exercised control with the support of the Burmese Communist Party.
Salween and Nu
* Nu river or Salween River
Here, the Salween — called the Nu or Nujiang — has been proposed for a series of enormous dams that would theoretically generate more power than Three Gorges Dam, currently the world's largest hydroelectric station.
Town of Liuku on the Salween ( Nu ) in Yunnan
Another 600 can be found east of the Dulong valley, living in the mountains above the Nu Jiang ( Salween River ) near the village of Binzhongluo in northern Gongshan County.
Salween and Jiang
Numerous rivers, including the Mekong, Yangtze, Yalong Jiang, and the Salween flow through Kham.
Salween and which
* the Salween ( Nujiang ), which flows into the Gulf of Martaban and the Andaman Sea through Burma
Since the 1970s, the countries along the river, especially China, have been pressing to build a series of hydroelectric and irrigation dams on the Salween River, some of which would be among the largest in the world if constructed.
In 2003, Huaneng Power International Inc. and the provincial government of Yunnan province, China, signed an agreement to build 13 dams and two reservoirs on the lower reaches of the Salween through Yunnan, some of which lie within the Three Parallel Rivers World Heritage Site.
Juvenile Botia kubotaiThe fish, a bottom feeder, is found in the Salween River system which is mostly in Myanmar.
Salween and means
Dehond is a transliteration of the term taɨ4 xoŋ2, where taɨ4 means ' bottom, under, the lower part ( of )', and xoŋ2 means ' the Hong River ' ( more widely known as the Salween River or Nujiang 怒江 in Chinese ) ( Luo 1998 ).
Salween and River
Groups in both countries have expressed concern over the Peoples Republic of China's construction of 13 hydroelectric dams on the Salween River in Yunnan.
The lake region extends from the Pangong Tso Lake in Ladakh, Lake Rakshastal, Yamdrok Lake and Lake Manasarovar near the source of the Indus River, to the sources of the Salween, the Mekong and the Yangtze.
The river region is characterised by fertile mountain valleys and includes the Yarlung Tsangpo River ( the upper courses of the Brahmaputra ) and its major tributary, the Nyang River, the Salween, the Yangtze, the Mekong, and the Yellow River.
* The Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas, in Yunan Province, within the drainage basins of the upper reaches of ( from north to south ) the Yangtze River, the Mekong River, and the Salween River.
These include the Salween and the Mekong River.
* Salween River ( China, Myanmar, Thailand )
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The orogenic belt generally trends east to west near the northern part of the Subcontinent and makes a southward arc along with the Salween River on the eastern side.
* Hydrometeorological Approach to the Upper Salween River ( USRB )-copyright by Dr. Christophe Lienert, Geographical Institute of the University of Berne and Kunming Institute of Botany
* Salween River Watch NGO
* Water Diversion from the Salween to the Chaophraya River
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