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Chishui River (Shaanxi)

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Chishui River (literally "Red Water River") is a river in China. It is a tributary of the Wei River. It is near the town of Chishui, in Hua County, under the jurisdiction of Weinan, in the northwestern province of Shaanxi. On December 30, 2009, the Lanzhou–Zhengzhou–Changsha product oil pipeline that connects Lanzhou, Gansu with Zhengzhou, Henan burst, spilling 150,000 litres (40, 000 US gal) of diesel oil into the Chishui River resulting in the Yellow River oil spill.

Flows through: People's Republic of China.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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