Dadu River
The Dadu River, known in Tibetan as the Gyelmo Ngul Chu, is a major river located primarily in Sichuan province, southwestern China. The Dadu flows from the eastern Tibetan Plateau into the Sichuan Basin where it joins with the Min River, a tributary of the Yangtze River.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Sichuan province, southern China
- Also known as: “Daduhe River”, “Dadukhe”, “Dajin River”, “Ta-tu Ho”, “Tatu”, and “Tung-kiang”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Leshan Giant Buddha and Wuyou Temple.
Leshan Giant Buddha
The Leshan Giant Buddha is a 71-meter tall stone statue, built between 713 and 803. It is carved out of a cliff face of Cretaceous red bed sandstones that lies at the confluence of the Min River and Dadu River in the southern part of Sichuan Province in China, near the city of Leshan.
Wuyou Temple
Forest
Photo: Urga, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wuyou Temple is a Buddhist temple located on the top of Mount Wuyou, in Shizhong District of Leshan, Sichuan, China. It is in the same area as the Leshan Giant Buddha and is the main and oldest temple in the area, being designated as Leshan's national key Buddhist temple.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Haitang Subdistrict and Lüxin.
Haitang Subdistrict
Suburb
Haitang Subdistrict is a subdistrict in Shizhong District of Leshan, Sichuan, China. As of 2020, it administers the following 17 residential communities:…
Lüxin
Suburb
Xiaoba Subdistrict is a subdistrict in Shizhong District, Leshan, Sichuan, China. As of 2018, it has 6 residential communities under its administration. Lüxin is situated 3 km northwest of Dadu River.
Leshan
Photo: Cccefalon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Leshan is a city in Sichuan Province. Sitting on the confluence of the Dadu, Mín and Qingyi rivers it is most famous for its huge riverside cliff-carving of Buddha and nearby Mount Emei; which together are a World Heritage Site.
Dadu River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Sichuan, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Wu Chinese—“Dadu River” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Դադուհե”
- Asturian: “Ríu Dadu”
- Cebuano: “Dadu He”
- Chinese: “大渡河”
- Chuvash: “Даду”
- Czech: “Ta-tu-che”
- Czech: “Ta-tu”
- Danish: “Dadu He”
- Dutch: “Dadu He”
- Dutch: “Dadu”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر دادو”
- French: “Dadu”
- French: “Rivière Dadu”
- German: “Dadu He”
- German: “Dadu-Fluss”
- German: “Dajin Chuan”
- German: “Rgyal rong rgyal mo rngul chu”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Dadu”
- Irish: “Abhainn Dadu”
- Italian: “Dadu”
- Japanese: “大渡河”
- Korean: “다두허”
- Literary Chinese: “大渡河”
- Lithuanian: “Dadu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dadu He”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dadu-elven”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dadu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Daduelven”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dadu He”
- Norwegian: “Dadu He”
- Persian: “دادو ریور (سیچووان)”
- Persian: “رود دادو”
- Polish: “Dadu”
- Russian: “Даду”
- Russian: “Дадухэ”
- Spanish: “Rio Dadu He”
- Spanish: “Río Dadu He”
- Spanish: “Rio Dadu”
- Spanish: “Río Dadu”
- Swedish: “Dadu He”
- Tajik: “Доди”
- Tajik: “Доду ревир”
- Tibetan: “རྒྱ་མོ་རྔུལ་ཆུ།”
- Tibetan: “རྒྱ་མོ་རྔུལ་ཆུ”
- Tibetan: “རྒྱལ་མོ་རྔུལ་ཆུ”
- Turkish: “Dadu Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Дадухе”
- Ukrainian: “річка Даду”
- Vietnamese: “Đại Độ hà”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Đại Độ”
- Welsh: “Afon Dadu”
- Wu Chinese: “大渡河”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Qingyi River and Leshan Airport.
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