Sengge Zangbo, Sengge Khabab () or Shiquan He () is a river in the

Ngari Prefecture Ngari Prefecture () or Ali Prefecture () is a prefecture of China's Tibet Autonomous Region covering Western Tibet, whose traditional name is Ngari Khorsum. Its administrative centre and largest settlement is the town of Shiquanhe. History Nga ...

in the

Tibet Autonomous Region The Tibet Autonomous Region or Xizang Autonomous Region, often shortened to Tibet or Xizang, is a province-level autonomous region of the People's Republic of China in Southwest China. It was overlayed on the traditional Tibetan regions of � ...

, China that is the source stream of the Indus river, one of the major trans-Himalayan rivers of Central and

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. The river rises in the mountain springs north of the

Manasarovar Lake Manasarovar (Sanskrit: मानसरोवर), also called Mapam Yutso (;) locally, is a high altitude freshwater lake fed by the Kailash Glaciers near Mount Kailash in Burang County, Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. The ...

lake, and downstream joins the

Gar Tsangpo Gar Tsangpo (; ), also called Gartang or Gar River, is a headwater of the Indus River in the Ngari Prefecture, Tibet, China. It merges with other headwater, Sênggê Zangbo, near the village of Tashigang to form the Indus River. The combined r ...

river near the village of Tashigang. Although it is thereafter called the Indus internationally, the Tibetans continue to regard the combined river to be Sênggê Zangbo as it flows into Ladakh. The town of

Shiquanhe Shiquanhe (), known in Tibetan as Sênggêkanbab () or Sênggêzangbo, is the main town and administrative seat of Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. Shiquanhe is located on the bank of Sênggê Zangbo, the source stream of the I ...

, the administrative headquarters of the

, is located in the lower valley of Sengge Zangbo, and is named after the river. Chizuo Tsangpo near its confluence with Sengge Zangbo

The Sengge Zangbo drains an area of , and covers a length of . Main tributaries include

. Other tributaries include the Langqu River, the Chizuo Tsangpo River, and the Charinongqu River.

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Sengge river basin
OpenStreetMap, retrieved 11 September 2021. Rivers of Tibet Tributaries of the Indus River Indus basin {{China-river-stub