Đuống River

The Đuống River (Vietnamese: Sông Đuống), also known as the Thiên Đức River, is a river of Vietnam. It flows for 68 kilometres (42 mi) through Bắc Ninh Province and Hanoi.^[1] It was previously known by the French as the Canal des Rapides.

Đuống River Thiên Đức River, Canal des Rapides
Đuống River look from Phù Đổng Bridge 2008.
Native name	Sông Đuống (Vietnamese)
Location
Country	Vietnam
Tỉnh, thành	Hà Nội, Bắc Ninh
Physical characteristics
Source	Cửa Dâu Junction
• location	Xuân Canh, Đông Anh District, Hanoi, Vietnam
• coordinates	21°4′51″N 105°50′41″E
Mouth	Mỹ Lộc Junction
• location	Trung Kênh, Lương Tài District, Bắc Ninh Province, Vietnam
• coordinates	21°3′21″N 106°18′16″E
Length	68 km (42 mi)
Discharge
• location	Thượng Cát
• average	880 m3/s (31,000 cu ft/s)
• maximum	9,000 m3/s (320,000 cu ft/s)

The river features in the poem "On the Other Side of the Đuống River" by Hoàng Cầm.^[2]

Gallery

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  Sunrise on Đuống river
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  Đuống bridge
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  The Duong River Bridge being repaired after the Operation Linebacker in 1972

References

Media related to Duong River at Wikimedia Commons

1. Vietnam Administrative Atlas, NXB Bản Đồ, 2004
2. Kim Ngoc Bao Ninh A World Transformed: The Politics of Culture in Revolutionary ... 2002 - Page 133 "Hoàng Cầm, well known for his heartbreaking poem "On the Other Side of the Đuống River," which detailed his village's devastation during the anti-French resistance, had become the director of the National Theater Troupe in 1955. He, too ..."