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Tô Lịch River
Sông Tô Lịch
Tô Lịch River
Map
Physical characteristics
MouthNhuệ River
 • elevation
0 m (0 ft)
Lengthapprox. 14 km (8.7 mi)
Basin features
River systemTô Lịch River System

To Lich River (Vietnamese: Sông Tô Lịch) is a small river, flowing in the territory of the Hanoi capital. Mainstream Tô Lịch river flows through the districts: Cầu Giấy, Thanh Xuân, Hoàng Mai and Thanh Trì. It is also known as Kim Giang.

Name

Name Tô Lịch River is derived from the name of a god was living in Jin dominated the Jiaozhi (Vietnamese: Giao Chỉ). In the Tang, here is the position of Imperial Citadel of Thang Long building.

History

Tô Lịch river have ever a distributary of the Red River, bringing water from upstream of the Red River to the middle of Nhuệ River. Towards the middle, it met West Lake (a remnant of the old Red River, located near Quán Thánh) and water from this lake was provided from there to the downstream. Đại nam nhất thống chí book (composed between the 19th century) wrote:

Tô River in eastern provinces (Hanoi) is a distributary of the Nhị Hà, flowing in the northern provinces to the Hương Bài village's manhole gate, Đông Xuân, Thọ Xương district (the old river gate located in Cầu Gỗ street, Hoàn Kiếm) move to the western of Vinh Thuan district, to the Nghĩa Đô rural communes and flow to the eastern district of Từ Liêm and Thanh Trì district, nearly 60 miles of winding, flowing into Nhuệ River in Hà Liễu rural communes.

Features

Filled

Current

Current Tô Lịch River begins in Nghĩa Đô ward, Cầu Giấy district (south of the Hoàng Quốc Việt road), running the same direction as the Bưởi, Láng and Kim Giang road to the south, southwest and then turns to the southeast and flows to Nhuệ River (opposite the village of Hữu Từ, Vĩnh Quỳnh, Thanh Tri).

Situation

Scheme to "clean" Tô Lịch river's water

After the flood history in early November 2008, people in Hanoi have seen Tô Lịch river's water "clean" as the old.[1] Meanwhile, Tô Lịch river was diluted down the mud and waste by rainwater, rising yards, rolling flow and the fishs were swimming! That flood did the Tô Lịch river's water cleaned in a few weeks.[2]

In 2009, Hanoi had a scheme: use the Red River's water to wash Tô Lịch river's water. This project is regarded as "sub-scheme" first made ​​the handling of three environmental issues most pressing in the area.[1][3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Hanoi: Tô Lịch river will re-clean as ever?". 24h.com.vn (in Vietnamese). 24 Hours. Retrieved 2011-11-17.
  2. ^ Anh Ngọc - Yến Hoa. "Tô Lịch River with "black face"". Songtre.vn. Sóng trẻ. Retrieved 2010-04-16.
  3. ^ Kim Tân. ""Wash" the Tô Lịch River by the Red River's water". dantri.com.vn (in Vietnamese). Dân Trí. Retrieved 2009-07-28.