Zengwun River

Zengwun River
River
Country Taiwan
Source
 - location Alishan, Chiayi County
 - elevation 2,609 m (8,560 ft)
Mouth Taiwan Strait
 - location Tainan
 - elevation 0 m (0 ft)
 - coordinates 23°03′00″N 120°04′01″E / 23.050°N 120.067°E / 23.050; 120.067Coordinates: 23°03′00″N 120°04′01″E / 23.050°N 120.067°E / 23.050; 120.067
Length 138.47 km (86 mi)
Basin 1,176.64 km2 (454 sq mi)

The Zengwun River (Chinese: 曾文溪; pinyin: Zéngwén Xī; Wade–Giles: Tseng2-wen2 Hsi1; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chan-bûn-khoe)[1] is a river in Taiwan. It flows through Tainan and Chiayi County for 138 km.[2]

The largest reservoir in Taiwan, Zengwun Reservoir, formed by Zengwun Dam, is located Located upstream of Zengwun River.[3]

Taijiang National Park encompasses parts of the Zengwun estuary as well as nearby coastal areas.[4] The endangered black-faced spoonbills come every winter as migrants and inhabit downstream near the estuary, where many other waterfowls are also found. A conservation area has been set up to protect the spoonbills.[5][6]

See also

Notes

  1. formerly spelled Tsengwen; historically Tsan-bun per Campbell (1896), map, and Davidson (1903), map
  2. "Zengwen River" (in Chinese). Water Resources Agency, Ministry of Economic Affairs. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  3. "Reservoirs, dams and weirs of Taiwan". Water Resources Agency, Ministry of Economic Affairs. 26 June 2013. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  4. "Taijiang". ProtectedPlanet. 2014–2015. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  5. "Black-faced Spoonbill Reserve". Taiwan – The Heart Of Asia. Tourism Bureau, Republic of China (Taiwan). 20 March 2015. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  6. BirdLife International (2015). "Platalea minor". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (IUCN) 2015: e.T22697568A84646222. Retrieved 27 April 2016.

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