The Tuo River () is -long river in

Sichuan Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capital city is Cheng ...

province of southern

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. The Tuo River is one of the major tributaries of the upper Yangtze River (''Chang Jiang'').

Geography

The river originates at the northwest edge of

Sichuan basin The Sichuan Basin (), formerly transliterated as the Szechwan Basin, sometimes called the Red Basin, is a lowland region in southwestern China. It is surrounded by mountains on all sides and is drained by the upper Yangtze River and its tributar ...

. It flows through Jintang, Jianyang, Ziyang, Zizhong, and

Neijiang Neijiang ( zh, s=内江 , t=內江; Sichuanese Pinyin: Nui4jiang1; Sichuanese Mandarin, Sichuanese pronunciation: ; zh, p=Nèijiāng , w=Nei-chiang) is a prefecture-level city in the southeast of Sichuan province, People's Republic of China. It ...

. It flows into

Yangtze River The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ) is the longest river in Eurasia and the third-longest in the world. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains of the Tibetan Plateau and flows including Dam Qu River the longest source of the Yangtze, i ...

Luzhou Luzhou ( zh, s=泸州, p=Lúzhōu; Sichuanese Pinyin: Nu2zou1; Minjiang dialect, Luzhou dialect: ) is a prefecture-level city located in the southeast of Sichuan Province, China. It is also known as the "Liquor City" (). It was named Jiangyang () ...

, Sichuan.

References

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Geography

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