Daliao River

The Daliao River (simplified, traditional, pinyin: Dàliáohé, "Great Liao River") is a major river system in eastern Liaoning province of Northeast China, and formerly the main distributary of the lower Liao River until 1958. The Daliao River proper is formed from the confluence of three rivers at the border between Anshan's Haicheng city and Panjin's Panshan County, after where it runs a length of 94 kilometres (58 mi) covering a catchment area of 1,926 square kilometres (744 sq mi), before coursing in meanders southwest and draining into the Liaodong Bay just west of Yingkou. The principal river of southern Northeast China, the Liao River, historically bifurcates into two distributaries near the Liujianfang Hydrological Station at Xinkaihe Town of Anshan's Tai'an County, forming the Liao River Delta. The eastern (left) distributary, called the Wailiao River, was originally the larger one of the two and the main outlet of lower Liao River. It travelled southwards to pick up two large tributaries, the Hun River and Taizi River, at a confluence locally referred as the "Trident River". After the three rivers merged, the resultant large river then adopted the new name as Daliao River. However, the low elevation and the flat, waterway-rich (and often rerouting) topography of the Liao River Delta region created a huge problem in flood control. During monsoon seas

Flows through: People's Republic of China.

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