three gorges china Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/three-gorges-china Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:00:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Three Gorges of Changjiang River Changjiang Sanxia http://travelsfinders.com/three-gorges-of-changjiang-river-changjiang-sanxia.html http://travelsfinders.com/three-gorges-of-changjiang-river-changjiang-sanxia.html#respond Sun, 05 Feb 2017 11:01:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=230515 The low and high water levels of the Changjiang vary according to the season by as much as 80m/260ft; in its lower reaches this variance can be twice as much as that of the Mississipi. Regular flooding ofthe river causes much devastation. For example, the flood of 1981 in the province of Sichuan resulted in 920 deaths and 28,000 injuries; 1,500,000 people were rendered homeless. A major cause of this flooding was the destruction of forests along the upper reaches of the river to provide more land for the growing of cereal crops. Attempts are now being made to solve

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