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5 unusual facts about Chindwin River


Hukawng Valley

The rivers draining into the Hukawng Valley, the Tanai Kha, the Tabye, the Tawan, and the Turong, form the headwaters of the Chindwin River.

Kale Township

Kale Township runs north–south along the Kale Valley in which lie the south flowing Neyinzaya River and the north flowing Myittha River which meet near the administrative seat of Kalemyo and flow east toward the Chindwin River.

Leshi Township

There is a major road under construction down from Lashi to the Chindwin River at Tamanthi in Homalin Township.

Sand Lark

The species is found across the Gangetic plains, the sandy banks of the Indus, Brahmaputra, Irrawady and Chindwin Rivers.

Tamanthi

Tamanthi, Htamanthi or Tamanthe is a village on the Chindwin River in Homalin Township in Hkamti District in the Sagaing Region of northwestern Burma.


Operation U-Go

The Indian XV Corps was advancing in the coastal Arakan Province, while the British IV Corps had pushed two Indian infantry divisions almost to the Chindwin River at Tamu and Tiddim.

Panglong Conference

Various groups of people migrated south into the Irrawaddy- Chindwin, Sittang and Salween valleys from the China-Tibet region in the latter part of the first millennium, the Mon followed by the Tibeto-Burman and Tai - Shan races.

Swasawke

Still in 1370, the Maw Shan State of Mohnyin, a leading Shan State, was fighting against another Shan state Kale of upper Chindwin region.


see also

Homalin

The Tamanthi Dam which is component part of the Tamanthi Hydroelectric Project (installed capacity 1200 MW) on the Chindwin River, which was under planning and investigations since 2004, is to be implemented with assistance from the Government of India, following a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed on September 16, 2008 between the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) of India and the Government of Burma, as a joint venture project.