This article is about the river in Yunnan, China. For the river in Xinjiang, China and Kazakhstan, see
Ili (river).
River in Yunnan Province
The Yili River or Yili He[4] (Chinese: 以禮河),[5] originally named "Yini River" (以尼河),[6] from the Yi language. In the noun "Yini", "Yi" refers water, and "Ni" refers willow, which means to insert willows by the river, [7] so it is also called "Willow River" (柳树河). [8]
Located in Yunnan Province of People's Republic of China, [9] it is a river in the Yangtze River basin, which merges into the right bank of the Jinsha River[10] and belongs to the Jinsha River system.
Yili River is 122 kilometers long, [11] with a drainage area of 2,558 square kilometers[12] and an average annual flow of 39 cubic meters per second.
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