Anyangcheon

{{Short description|River in South Korea}}

{{distinguish|Anyang River}}

{{Infobox Korean name

|img=South Seoul Rivers - English.png

|hangul=안양천

|hanja =安養川

|rr=Anyangcheon

|mr=Anyangch'ŏn

}}

Anyangcheon ({{Korean|hangul=안양천}}) is a river in Gyeonggi Province and Seoul, South Korea. Its source is on the slopes of Gwanggyosan in Uiwang{{cite web|url=http://www.uw21.net/02en/about/env/|title=Uiwang Environment Map|work=Uiwang City Council|accessdate=2009-04-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160127200505/http://www.uw21.net/02en/about/env/|archive-date=2016-01-27|url-status=dead}} and flows north, through the city of Gunpo, where a major cleanup operation saw several species of birds return to the area in 2005.{{cite web|url=http://www.apec-vc.or.kr/?p_name=newsroom&gotopage=125&query=view&unique_num=2048 |title=Visible Achievement for River Water Quality Improvement |work=Korea Environmental Technology Exchange |accessdate=2009-04-21 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714203919/http://www.apec-vc.or.kr/?p_name=newsroom&gotopage=125&query=view&unique_num=2048 |archivedate=2014-07-14 }} Here, though, the water table remains depleted.{{cite web|url=http://hrg.snu.ac.kr/research/Physics%20&%20Chemistry2008.pdf|title=Integrated watershed management for mitigating streamflow depletion in an urbanized watershed in Korea|work=Kil Seong Lee, Eun-Sung Chung, and Young-Oh Kim, of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seoul National University|accessdate=2009-04-21}} The river then flows through Anyang City,{{cite web|url=http://en.anyang.go.kr/new/A040000.jsp |archive-url=https://archive.today/20100416035236/http://en.anyang.go.kr/new/A040000.jsp |url-status=dead |archive-date=2010-04-16 |title=Welcome to Digital Anyang |work=Anyang City Council |accessdate=2009-04-20 }} where it is met by its major tributary, the Hakuicheon stream. From here, it loops around to the west before continuing north to the border with Gwangmyeong City. As the river passes to the west of Mount Gwanak, it forms the border between Gwangmyeong and Seoul, where it is lined on the Gwangmyeong side with rape fields and cherry blossom trees.{{cite web|url=http://eng.gm.go.kr/user.tdf?a=user.english.intro.IntroApp&c=1002&fn=anyangcheon_side_park.htm&mc=E_03_04_03|title=Anyangcheon Park|work=Gwangmyeong City Council|accessdate=2009-04-21}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}} After the stream is joined near Guil Station from the west by the Mokgamcheon stream, which forms another border between Gwangmyeong and Seoul, it is then totally within the capital. Here, it is also joined from the east by the Dorimcheon and passes through a conservation zone for migratory birds{{cite web|url=http://english.seoul.go.kr/cheonggye/news/1244566_13577.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070620151411/http://english.seoul.go.kr/cheonggye/news/1244566_13577.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-06-20 |title=Conservation zone for migratory birds |work=Seoul City Council |accessdate=2009-04-20 }} which was established after a 2005 cleanup operation,{{cite web|url=http://english.seoul.go.kr/cheonggye/media_home/1226124_13579.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070620151411/http://english.seoul.go.kr/cheonggye/media_home/1226124_13579.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-06-20 |title=Seoul Bustles with Stream Cleaning Activities |work=Seoul City Council |accessdate=2009-04-20 }} whereafter it joins the Han. Most of the length of the river has a path alongside providing easy access, the only parts without this lying in Uiwang. Seoul City Council has embarked on a programme of exclusive cycle path creation alongside its waterways, including the Anyangcheon, to be completed in 2010.{{update inline |date=September 2024}}{{Cite journal |title=Cycling-only roads to be constructed by 2010 |url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1474706508000296 |journal=Seoul City Council |series=Integrated Water Resources Management in a Changing World |date=January 2008 |volume=33 |issue=5 |pages=382–394 |doi=10.1016/j.pce.2008.02.033 |hdl-access=free |hdl=10371/68317 |last1=Lee |first1=Kil Seong |last2=Chung |first2=Eun-Sung |last3=Kim |first3=Young-Oh }}