The Yellow River originates from the Kariqu Valley at the foot of Gezigaya Mountain at the northern foot of Bayan Kara and the Yogu Zonglie Basin, and is divided into two sources: the north and the south. The altitude of the two places is about 4600 meters to more than 4800 meters.
It flows from west to east through Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan and Shandong provinces, and finally flows into the Bohai Sea. There is little precipitation in the basin, mainly dry land agriculture, which is dry in winter and spring, and the precipitation in summer and autumn is concentrated in July and August.
The middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River are dominated by mountains, while the middle and lower reaches are dominated by plains and hills. Because the middle section of the river flows through the Loess Plateau in China and carries a lot of sediment, it is also called the river with the largest sediment concentration in the world. However, in the history of China, the diversion of the lower Yellow River has brought great influence to human civilization.
Source dispute:
1952, the national scientific research team considered Yogu Zonglie Qu as the positive source of the Yellow River; The Yogu Zonglie Canal is 326.09 kilometers long, with a drainage area of 2,372 square kilometers, a width of 1.5 meters, a depth of 0.2 meters and a flow of 2.5 cubic meters per second. Kariqu is 362.63 kilometers long, with a drainage area of 3 126 square kilometers, a width of 3 meters, a depth of 0.5 meters, and a flow of 6.3 cubic meters per second.
1in the summer of 978, the state organized an investigation team to go deep into the Heyuan area for field investigation, and found out that in the west of Heyuan area, three rivers flowed into Xinghai, namely Zaqu, Yuegu Zonglie and Kariqu. Zhaqu has the shortest flow and smaller water volume, which can only be regarded as a tributary of Yuegu Zongle Qu.
Therefore, the basis for determining Kariqu as the positive source of the Yellow River is sufficient. Kariqu originated in Geziya Mountain at the northern foot of Bayan Kara at an altitude of 4,800 meters. The clear water overflowed from several springs at the foot of the mountain is the initial flow of the Yellow River, which "roars Wan Li and moves Longmen".
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