Dadu River (Taiwan)

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| name = Dadu River
Wu River
Black River

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| image = Wu River.jpg

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| image_caption = Sunset at the lower reaches of Wu River

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| alt = Map showing the mouth of Wu River

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| lon_deg = 120.486097

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| source1_location = Central Mountain Range: western foothills of Hehuanshan

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| mouth_location = Taiwan Strait: Taichung City/Changhua County border

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| basin_size = {{convert|2025.6|km2|abbr=on}}

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| subdivision_name1 = Taiwan

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| length = {{convert|124|km|abbr=on}}

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{{chinese

|c={{linktext|大肚|溪}}

|p=Dàdù Xī |w=Ta-tu Hsi |l={{nowrap|Big Belly Creek}}

|altname=Black River

|t2={{linktext|烏|溪}} |s2={{linktext|乌|溪}}

|p2=Wū Xī |w2=Wu Hsi |l2=Black Creek
Raven Creek
Crow Creek

|poj2=O͘ Khe

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The Dadu River also called the Wu River, is a major river located in the Northwest of Taiwan. With a total length of {{cvt|124|km|abbr=on}} it is sixth-longest river on the island. {{cite web |url=http://geonames.nga.mil/namesviewer/ |title=GeoNames Search |work=Geographic Names Database |publisher=National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, USA |accessdate=1 May 2016}}

Names

The Dadu River is named after a former port near its mouth, now the Dadu District of Taichung.

It is also known as the {{nowrap|Black River}},{{sfnp|EB|1879|p=416}} a calque of its Hokkien name. The same name appears in English as the {{nowrap|Wu River,}} the pinyin romanization of its Mandarin pronunciation. It received the name from the many black-winged birds that used to live along the river.{{sfnp|Huang|2016|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=ocb_CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA67 67]}}

Geography

It flows through Taichung City, Changhua County, and Nantou County for {{convert|119|km|sp=us}}.{{cite book |title=The Republic of China Yearbook 2015 |chapter=Geography & demographics |date=2015 |publisher=Executive Yuan |isbn=978-986-04-6013-1 |pages=40–53 |url=http://yearbook.multimedia.ey.gov.tw/enebook/2015yearbook/index.html |access-date=2016-05-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160531095543/http://yearbook.multimedia.ey.gov.tw/enebook/2015yearbook/index.html |archive-date=2016-05-31 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.wra.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=20003&CtNode=4546 |title=Wu River |language=Chinese |publisher=Water Resources Agency, Ministry of Economic Affairs |accessdate=1 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415130901/http://www.wra.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=20003&ctNode=4546 |archive-date=15 April 2016 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.chcg.gov.tw/eng/01us/02location.asp |title=Geographic Location |work=About Changhua |publisher=Changhua County Government |date=14 March 2012 |accessdate=1 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826113852/http://www.chcg.gov.tw/eng/01us/02location.asp |archive-date=26 August 2014 |url-status=dead }} It is the 6th-longest river on Taiwan Island and the 4th-largest in terms of drainage area.

References

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{{citation |contribution=Formosa |title=Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IX |editor-last=Baynes |editor-first=Thomas Spencer |display-editors=0 |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |location=New York |date=1879 |ref={{harvid|EB|1879}} |pp=415–17 }}.
{{citation |last=Huang |first=Peter I-min |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ocb_CgAAQBAJ |title=Linda Hogan and Contemporary Taiwanese Writers: An Ecocritical Study of Indigeneities and Environment |publisher=Lexington Books |location=Lanham |date=2016 |contribution=Mean Spirit, Environmental Justice, and Postcolonial Ecocriticism |contribution-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ocb_CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA47 }}.

Category:Rivers of Taiwan

Category:Landforms of Changhua County

Category:Landforms of Taichung

Category:Landforms of Nantou County