Image 4Diagram showing dams planned for the upper reaches of the Yangtze River (from Yangtze)
Image 5The critically endangered Chinese alligator is one of the smallest crocodilians, reaching a maximum length of about 2 m (7 ft). (from Yangtze)
Image 6The Tuotuo River, a headwater stream of the Yangtze River, known in Tibetan as Maqu, or the "Red River" (from Yangtze)
Image 7The Jinsha, "Golden Sands River", in Yunnan (from Yangtze)
Image 8The glaciers of the Tanggula Mountains, the traditional source of the Yangtze River (from Yangtze)
Image 9The silver carp is native to the river, but has (like other Asian carp) been spread through large parts of the world with aquaculture. (from Yangtze)
Image 15The Chinese mitten crab is a commercially important species in the Yangtze, but invasive in other parts of the world. (from Yangtze)
Image 16A topographical map of China depicting the Yangtze's steady course and the former route of the Yellow River south of Shandong to the Huai mouth, after its stabilization by the Grand Eunuch Li Xing's public works following the 1494 flood (from Yangtze)
Image 17A container carrier on Yangtze (from Yangtze)
Image 18The entirely aquatic Chinese giant salamander is the world's largest amphibian, reaching up to 1.8 m (5.9 ft) in length. (from Yangtze)
Image 19A map of the Warring States around 350 BC, showing the former coastline of the Yangtze delta (from Yangtze)
Image 21Qutang Gorge, one of the Three Gorges (from Yangtze)
Image 22The "Great River" (大江) with its entrance to the East China Sea marked as the "Mouth of the Yangtze" (揚子江口) on the Jiangnan map in the 1754 Provincial Atlas of the Qing Empire (from Yangtze)
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