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Touqian River

The 883rd longest river in the world

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The Touqian River (Hanyu Pinyin: Tóuqián Xī, Tongyong Pinyin: Tóucián Si, Wade–Giles: T'ou2-ch'ien2 Hsi1) is a river in northern Taiwan. It flows through Hsinchu County for 63 km (39 mi). The tofu rocks are located on a section of the Touqian before it passes through Hsinchu City. They were placed as water breakers to slow the river to mitigate soil erosion of the riverbed.

Flows through: Taiwan.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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