Yiong Tsangpo

Last updated January 31, 2026

The Yiong Tsangpo (Tibetan : ཡིད་འོང་གཙང་པོ།, Wylie : yid 'ong gtsang po, Chinese :易贡藏布; pinyin :Yìgòng Zàngbù) is a right-bank tributary of the Parlung Tsangpo in eastern Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It starts in the Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains of central Lhari County, runs 286 kilometres and empties into the Parlung Tsangpo near Tongmai of Bomê County.^[1] A tremendous Yigong landslide occurred on the Yiong Tsangpo in Bomê County on April 9, 2000. It can be called the largest and longest rapid landslide in China.^[2]^[3]

Notes

↑ Encyclopedia of rivers and lakes in China:Section of river basins in southwest region. Beijing: China WaterPower Press. 2014. ISBN 978-7-5170-2699-0.
↑ "Formation of tremendous Yigong landslide based on high-speed shear tests". Archived from the original on 2017-04-16. Retrieved 2017-04-16.
↑ "High-Speed Ring Shear Tests to Study the Motion and Acceleration Processes of the Yingong Landslide". Archived from the original on 2017-04-17. Retrieved 2017-04-16.

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[1] Encyclopedia of rivers and lakes in China:Section of river basins in southwest region. Beijing: China WaterPower Press. 2014. ISBN 978-7-5170-2699-0.

[2] "Formation of tremendous Yigong landslide based on high-speed shear tests". Archived from the original on 2017-04-16. Retrieved 2017-04-16.

[3] "High-Speed Ring Shear Tests to Study the Motion and Acceleration Processes of the Yingong Landslide". Archived from the original on 2017-04-17. Retrieved 2017-04-16.

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