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.- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Sichuan province, southern China
- Also known as: “Dadu-elven”, “Dadu-Fluss”, “Daduelven”, “Daduhe River”, “Dadukhe”, “Đại Độ hà”, “Dajin Chuan”, “Dajin River”, “Rgyal rong rgyal mo rngul chu”, “Rio Dadu”, “Rio Dadu He”, “Río Dadu He”, “Rivière Dadu”, “Ta-tu”, “Ta-tu Ho”, “Tatu”, “Tung-kiang”, “річка Даду”, “རྒྱ་མོ་རྔུལ་ཆུ”, and “རྒྱ་མོ་རྔུལ་ཆུ།”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Leshan Giant Buddha and Wuyou Temple.
Leshan Giant Buddha
The Leshan Giant Buddha is a 71-meter tall stone statue, built between 712 and 804 AD.
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.
Lüxin
Suburb
Xiaoba Subdistrict is a subdistrict in Shizhong District, Leshan, Sichuan, China. Lüxin is situated 3 km northwest of Dadu River.
Dadu River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Sichuan, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.54572° or 29° 32′ 45″ north
Longitude
103.76329° or 103° 45′ 48″ east
Elevation
361 metres (1,184 feet)
Open location code
7PX5GQW7+78
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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”
- Danish: “Dadu He”
- Dutch: “Dadu He”
- Dutch: “Dadu”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر دادو”
- French: “Dadu”
- German: “Dadu He”
- 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 Nynorsk: “Dadu He”
- Norwegian: “Dadu He”
- Persian: “دادو ریور (سیچووان)”
- Persian: “رود دادو”
- Polish: “Dadu”
- Russian: “Дадухэ”
- Spanish: “Río Dadu”
- Swedish: “Dadu He”
- Tajik: “Доди”
- Tajik: “Доду ревир”
- Tibetan: “རྒྱལ་མོ་རྔུལ་ཆུ”
- Turkish: “Dadu Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Дадухе”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Đại Độ”
- Welsh: “Afon Dadu”
- Wu Chinese: “大渡河”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Dafosi and Jiufeng.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Qingyi River and Leshan Airport.
Sichuan: Must-Visit Destinations
Worth a closer look: Chengdu and Jiuzhaigou Nature Reserve.
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