The Dawei River or Tavoy River () is a river of the
Tanintharyi Region
Tanintharyi Region (, ; Mon: or ; formerly Tenasserim Division and Tanintharyi Division) is a region of Myanmar, covering the long narrow southern part of the country on the northern Malay Peninsula, reaching to the Kra Isthmus. It borders ...
,
Burma
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and ha ...
.
Geography
It has its source in the
Tenasserim Hills and flows from north to south, the northern branch of the
Tenasserim River running parallel to it. It ends in the
Andaman Sea
The Andaman Sea (historically also known as the Burma Sea) is a marginal sea of the northeastern Indian Ocean bounded by the coastlines of Myanmar and Thailand along the Gulf of Martaban and the west side of the Malay Peninsula, and separated f ...
coast. In the last stretch of its course it forms a navigable
estuary
An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea. Estuaries form a transition zone between river environments and maritime enviro ...
before it meets the sea.
Off the shore there are a number of small islands on the western side of the estuarine area.
Dawei (Tavoy) town is located at the head of the estuary by the river at a distance about 40 km from its mouth.
[ GoogleEarth] The river is 120 miles long.
See also
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List of rivers in Burma
References
External links
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Tavoy deep-sea port project brings fears of relocation
Rivers of Myanmar
Tanintharyi Region
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