River
Zhuoshui River
186 km from source to mouth · Taiwan.
TaiwanFlows into Taiwan Strait1st longest in Taiwan
In numbers
Length
186km
Average flow
180m³/s
Basin
3,155km²
Drop
1,188m
from 1,189 m to 1 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
186 km of river and 12 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmHehuanshanat 1,189 m
- 5 kmYunlong Bridge
- 19 kmWushe Shuiku2.5 km²
- 72 kmCh’ing-lung Falls
- 85 kmLongshen Bridge
- 91 kmChenyoulan Rivertributary
- 93 kmShuili Rivertributary
- 131 kmErshui14,080 people
- 132 kmCingshuei Rivertributary
- 153 kmZhongsha Bridge
- 155 kmXiluo37,181 people
- 157 kmXiluo Bridge
- 167 kmZiqiang Bridge
- 186 kmTaiwan Straitat 1 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Taiwan
At the mouth it carries 179 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 14 seconds. It drops from 1,189 m to 1 m, 6.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 3,155 km², about the size of LU. 317,000 people live in it. Highest water: from June to August; lowest: from November to February. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- XiluoLargest city on its banks · 37,181 people
- Chiayi Airport (CYI)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 38 km from the cityCar hire in TaichungDiscover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From October to FebruaryThe best months to visit
Zhuoshui River, month by month
Highest water: from June to August
Lowest water: from November to February. Best months to visit: from October to February.
From about 43 m³/s in the lowest month to 420 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Zhuoshui River: the basin in numbers
3,267 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 317,000people live in the basin
- 97/km²people per km²
- 1,398maverage altitude of the basin
- 2,700mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 16.0°Caverage air temperature
- 8%protected areas
- 0.3%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 63% Forest
- 7% Cropland
- 4% Pasture
- 6% Towns and cities
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Zhuoshui River: what you find on the way
- 7WeirsJiji Weir and 6 more
- 7Locks
- 7Waterfalls
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Zhuoshui River in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
1waterfall on the riverCascadyas
1lake on its wayLakeyas
60mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Waterfalls (1)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Ch’ing-lung Fallskm 52
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Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Wushe Shuikukm 142.5km²
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Mountains at the source (60)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Zhuoshe Mountain14 km away3,368m
- Nenggao Mountain8.6 km away3,261m
- Nenggao South Peak8.9 km away3,349m
- Ganzuowan Mountain9.3 km away3,284m
- Mu Mountain9.6 km away3,239m
- Shenku Mountain15 km away3,311m
- Mt. Wandong West Peak10 km away3,257m
- Nanhua Mountain14 km away3,184m
52 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Zhuoshui River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (11)
Also: Shuili River, Chenyoulan River, Kashe River, Wanda River, Cingshuei River, Bkasan River, Qingshuigou River, Vatan River, Dongpurui River, Wushe Xi, Qingshui Xi
ChinaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q708374) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Cascadyas, Lakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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