Talk:Salween River

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I think the author of the Salween River article has confused this river with the Irrawady River. The Salween does not have a delta, but empties into a small estuary north of Moulmein. It is the Irrawady whose large delta forms Myanmar's agricultural heartland.

I'm preparing a map for this article and I agree with you, will strike out that sentence Kmusser 14:39, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Source height

There is just no way Salween has a source at a mere height of 1.578 m. Remember Salween's source is high in Tibet plateau. I suppose the source lies at a height in excess of 5.000 m. 77.38.44.85 (talk) 23:02, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

First sentence of chapter Geography (The Salween rises at 1,578 metres (5,177 ft)[4] in the Qinghai Mountains on the Tibetan Plateau, near the headwaters of the Mekong and Yangtze rivers.) is still unchanged. It does not rise at 1.578 m. 77.38.44.85 (talk) 13:22, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

It is still uncorrected. 77.38.44.85 (talk) 21:28, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

Corrected source elevation to 5450m and included ref. - Takeaway (talk) 21:43, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

Length?

IP-User 88.240.196.242 changed today the length from 2815 km to 2400 km. In de:Saluen is stated:

Durch die Entdeckung der Quelle des Saluen im Jahre 1989/1990 durch den deutschen Geologen und Glaziologen Prof. Dr. Dieter Ortlam (Bremen) und seiner Verbindung über den Amdo-Donak-See zur Tibet-Highway-Brücke bei Megschen (südwestlich der Stadt Nagchu) konnte die Flusslänge zwischenzeitlich mit 2980 km bestimmt werden. (The length of the Salween could be evaluated by Prof. Dr. Dieter Ortlam (Bremen) … to 2980 km.)

Other findings:

• South East Asia River Network: approximately 2,800 kilometers.
• WWF: 2800 km.
• United Nations Development Program: The total length of the Salween is approximately 2,800 kilometers.

--hdamm 12:43, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Rambo movie

The new Rambo movie is apparently set here... AnonMoos (talk) 01:00, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Undammed river?

It states in the article opening that the river is undammed and it's one of the longest free-flowing rivers in the world. There are then several sections about the river being dammed, with an extensive list of dams on the river. ☽Dziban303 »» Talk☾ 20:29, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

Wu River

"Map of the Origins of the Jinsha, Lancang, and Other Rivers", showing eastern Tibet, southeastern Qinghai, and the 'Three Parallel Rivers' area of northwestern Yunnan

The Kangxi or Jesuit Atlas (three ed. in 1718, 1719, 1721) called the upper stretches of this river the Wu or Wujiang (烏江, Wū or Wù Jiāng, "Raven River") rather than the present name 怒江. a) If this was the general imperial Chinese name of the river, that should probably be in the article. b) If there are any sources about when or why the name changed to "Nu", that would be helpful to include as well. — LlywelynII 03:24, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Biodiversity

This article claims that a quarter of the world's animal species live in the Salween basin. This appears many places on the internet, sometimes vaguely citing UNESCO, but I was unable to find a reliable source for it. Some estimates put the Amazon basin (an area 20 times larger than the Salween basin) at 10-30% of the world's animal biodiversity, so the 25% number would be quite surprising. — Preceding unsigned comment added by John.oleary.85 (talk • contribs) 15:30, 10 September 2023 (UTC)