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Sengge Zangbo

River in Tibet Autonomous Region, China From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Sengge Zangbo,[1][2] Sengge Khabab[3] (Tibetan: སེང་གེ་ཁ་འབབ།, Wylie: seng ge kha 'bab) or Shiquan He (Chinese: 獅泉河; pinyin: Shīquán Hé) is a river in the Ngari Prefecture in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China that is the source stream of the Indus River, one of the major trans-Himalayan rivers of Central and South Asia. The river rises in the mountain springs north of the Manasarovar lake,[4] and 300 km (190 mi) downstream joins the Gar Tsangpo river near the village of Tashigang. Although it is thereafter called the Indus internationally,[5] the Tibetans continue to regard the combined river to be Sênggê Zangbo as it flows into Ladakh.

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The town of Shiquanhe, the administrative headquarters of the Ngari Prefecture, is located in the lower valley of Sengge Zangbo, and is named after the river.

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Chizuo Tsangpo, a tributary of Sengge Zangbo, near its confluence

The Sengge Zangbo drains an area of 27,450 square kilometres (10,600 sq mi), and covers a length of 430 kilometres (270 mi). Main tributaries include Gar Tsangpo.[citation needed] Other tributaries include the Langqu River, the Chizuo Tsangpo River, and the Charinongqu River.[6]

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