What is the source of the Pearl River Where is the source of the Pearl River?

The Xijiang River, the main stream of the Pearl River, originates from the Maxiong Mountains in Zhanyi District, Qujing City, northeastern Yunnan Province, and flows through the four provinces (autonomous regions) of Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong, and the Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions. At the confluence of Sanshui and Beijiang in Guangdong, it flows into the South China Sea from eight estuaries in the Pearl River Delta region.

The Beijiang and Dongjiang river systems are almost all in Guangdong; The source of the Beijiang River is 582 kilometers long in the southern part of Hunan and Jiangxi provinces; The source of the Dongjiang River is 503 kilometers long in the southern part of Jiangxi Province. The Pearl River basin covers an area of 10,000 square kilometers in China, and more than 10,000 square kilometers in Vietnam. The Pearl River estuary alluvial forms the Pearl River Delta.

The Wumeng Mountains of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau are the Maxiong Mountains.

The Pearl River is the second largest river in China and the third longest river in China. The Pearl River originally referred to a 96-kilometer-long waterway from Guangzhou to the mouth of the sea, named after the famous Haizhu Island (Shi), and later gradually became the general name of the Xijiang, Dongjiang, Beijiang and the rivers on the Pearl River Delta.

The Pearl River originates in the Maxiong Mountains of the Wumeng Mountains of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, flows through six provinces in central and western China and northern Vietnam, and flows downstream into the South China Sea from eight estuaries to the South China Sea.

The source of the Pearl River is the Xijiang River at the northeastern foot of Maxiong Mountain in Zhanyi County, Yunnan Province.

The main stream of the Xijiang River flows through the four provinces (regions) of Yunnan, Guizhou, Guizhou and Guangdong, and flows into the South China Sea at the Modaomen Waterway in Guangdong Province, with a total length of 2,214 kilometers and an average slope of the river. The catchment area above Sixianjiao is about 353,120 square kilometers. In Xiangzhou County, Guangxi Province, Shilong Sanjiangkou is the upper reach, Sanjiangkou to Wuzhou City is the middle reach, Wuzhou to Sanshui County, Guangdong Province Sixianjiao is the downstream, Sixianjiao to Modaomen Qirenshi is the estuary section.

The Pearl River originates from Maxiong Mountain, Zhanyi District, Yunnan Province. The Pearl River is a composite water system formed by the convergence of the Xijiang, Beijiang, Dongjiang and the Pearl River Delta, originating from the Maxiong Mountain of the Wumeng Mountains of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, flowing through Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong, Hunan, Jiangxi 6 provinces (regions) and the northern part of Vietnam, thus forming the characteristics of many tributaries and waterways, and flowing into a network of rivers in the downstream delta, through the distribution of 6 cities and counties in Guangdong Province Humen, Jiaomen, Hongqimen (Li), Hengmen, Modaomen, Jiqimen, The Tiger Leaping Gate and the Cliff Gate flow into the South China Sea.

Characteristics of the water systemIn the Pearl River system of Guangdong, the Dongjiang River, the Liuxi River and the Beijiang River flow roughly from northeast to southwest, and the Xijiang River and Tanjiang River flow roughly from west to east, and all converge in the Pearl River Delta network river area, and finally flow into the South China Sea by 8 major gates respectively, and the whole water system is a fan-shaped water system.

The topography of the Pearl River Basin in Guangdong is roughly inclined from north to south, and the highest peak, Shikenggang, is 1,902 meters above sea level. The area of the left bank of the main stream of the Pearl River is more than twice that of the right bank. The density of the river network is relatively large, and the density of the river network in the delta area is more than one kilometer per kilometer.

The bending coefficient of the main stream is that the main stream is a flat river.