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unusual facts about Yarlung Tsangpo River


Yarlung

Yarlung River, also called Yarlung Tsangpo River, a river in Tibet and upper course of the Brahmaputra


Gonchen Monastery

He is said to have made 108 of them, the most celebrated being the one over the Yarlung Tsangpo near modern Chushul.

Thang Tong Gyalpo

One of his iron chain suspension bridges, Chakzam Bridge, about 65 km from Lhasa, at Yarlung Tsangpo River, still existed in 1948, though it was in need of repairs and no longer used, the crossing being made by ferry.


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Yarlung

Yarlung Valley, formed by the Yarlung River and refers especially to the district where it joins with the Chongye River, and broadens out into a large plain about 2 km wide, before they flow north into the Yarlung Tsangpo River or Brahmaputra