Wujia River

{{Infobox river

| name = Wujia River

| native_name = {{native name list

|tag1=zh|name1=乌加河|postfix1={{cite web |date=Jul 15, 2018 |title=Frontier, Fortification, and Forestation: Defensive Woodland on the Song-Liao Border in the long Eleventh Century |website=Cambridge.org |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-chinese-history/article/frontier-fortification-and-forestation-defensive-woodland-on-the-songliao-border-in-the-long-eleventh-century/847B22FE75C4FD6632086433E7FC3BB1/core-reader}}

|tag2=zh|name2=五加河|postfix2={{cite book |last=Taveirne |first=Patrick |year=2004 |title=Han-Mongol Encounters and Missionary Endeavors: A History of Scheut in Ordos (Hetao) 1874-1911 |publisher=Leuven University Press |isbn=978-90-5867-365-7 |pages=41– |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z2japTNPRNAC&pg=PA41}}

}}

| image =

| image_caption =

| source1 =

| source1_elevation =

| mouth =

| mouth_location =

| mouth_coordinates =

| progression =

| subdivision_type1 = Country

| subdivision_name1 = People's Republic of China{{cite book |author=Shun-wu Chou |date=1 January 1992 |title=China provincial geography |publisher=Foreign Languages Press |isbn=978-0-8351-2737-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jN4uAQAAIAAJ}}

| subdivision_type2 = Province

| subdivision_name2 = Inner Mongolia{{cite book |author1=Yong Ma |author2=Hongxia Su |author3=Qian Jin |date=30 June 2016 |title=The General History Of Chinese Tourism Culture |publisher=World Scientific |isbn=978-1-938368-41-7 |pages=147– |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SvjPDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA147}}

| subdivision_type3 =

| subdivision_name3 =

| length =

| discharge1_avg =

| basin_size =

}}

The Wujia River ({{Lang-zh|乌加河, 五加河}}) is a river in the Inner Mongolia{{Cite web |date=2009-04-15 |title=论战国时期秦、赵、燕北部长城 |language=zh |trans-title= |website=Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China |url=http://www.mnr.gov.cn/zt/ch/mcczy_30719/ccsh/201807/t20180727_2153316.html}} of the People's Republic of China,{{cite book |year=1979 |title=Cihai, 1979 edition, Volume 1 |publisher=Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing House |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cZYPAAAAYAAJ}} located in the northern part of the river-loop plain in western Inner Mongolia. The ancient Yellow River in the Hetao region{{cite book |year=1977 |title=Cultural relics |publisher=Cultural Relics Publishing House |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qv4hHUlCI7QC}} is the current Wujia River. {{cite book |author=XiaoYinong |date=1 January 2016 |title=Green Great Wall |publisher=Yuanfang Publishing House |isbn=978-7-5001-4326-0 |pages=150– |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iKmUDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT150}} According to Commentary on the Water Classic records, the Wujia River that flows north from Bayangol Town (巴彦高勒镇) was originally the main stem of the Yellow River.{{cite book |author=Wang Tianshun |year=2006 |title=Yellow River Civilization: History of Hetao |publisher=People's Press |isbn=978-7-01-005244-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ewp4AAAAIAAJ}} "Wujia River" means "One End of the River" (河的一端) or "Tip River" (尖河) in Mongolian.{{cite book|title=Cihai: religious fascicle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aPLlAAAAMAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing House}}

Due to the elevation of the river bed,{{cite book |year=1987 |title=Inner Mongolia style |publisher=People's Daily Publishing House |pages=19– |isbn=9787800020155 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P0IRAQAAMAAJ}} Wujia River ceased to flow around 1850,{{cite book |author=Ye Qingchao |year=1990 |title=River Landforms in the Lower Yellow River |publisher=China Science Publishing & Media |isbn=9787030018427 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LngPAQAAMAAJ}} and the mainstream of the Yellow River moved south to the current channel. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, after the excavation of the irrigation channel in the Houtao (后套) was completed, Wujia River became a drainage canal. The remaining water was Ulansuhai Nur in the western part of the Urad Front Banner of Bayannaoer League (巴彦淖尔盟).{{cite book |year=2003 |title=Ci hai, Volume 1 |publisher=Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing House |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vz0ZAQAAIAAJ}} There was a small drainage ditch (i.e. Wangliuzhao) connected with the Yellow River. The Wujia River has now become the main drainage channel of the Hetao Irrigation District.{{cite book |year=1999 |title=Encyclopedia of China |publisher=Encyclopedia of China Publishing House |isbn=9787500062127 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=alAxAQAAIAAJ}}