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cubic metres per second (710,000 cu ft/s) for a total of nine hours. Several towns along the upper river were destroyed by flooding and landslides, killing up to 500 people. The flow of the river was so strong that it created currents of up to 60 kilometres (37 mi) per hour in the Taiwan Strait, damaging or destroying eight
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Gaoping River. About 3 metres (120 in) of rain (one year’s typical precipitation) fell over the Gaoping River basin in a period of three days. The river flow peaked at 27,447 cubic metres per second (969,300 cu ft/s) on August 8, and exceeded 20,000
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Kaoping River valley is generally considered the boundary between the
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Liu, James T.; Hsu, Ray T.; Hung, Jia-Jang; Chang, Yuan-Pin; Wang, Yu-Huai; Rendle-Bühring, Rebecca H.; Lee, Chon-Lin; Huh, Chih-An; Yang, Rick J. (2016). "From the highest to the deepest: The
Gaoping River–Gaoping Submarine Canyon dispersal system".
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Gaoping is one of the few rivers in western Taiwan without a major dam in its basin. However, the river is used extensively for irrigation on the Pingtung plain and its tributaries supply water for domestic and industrial use. The
509:. The Japanese colonial government built the Shimo-Tansui Railway Bridge (now known as the Old Gaoping River Iron Bridge), at the time the longest iron bridge in Asia. The bridge was designed by engineer Toyoji Īda
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868:"Modern accumulation rates and a budget of sediment off the Gaoping (Kaoping) River, SW Taiwan: A tidal and flood dominated depositional environment around a submarine canyon"
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684:– Kaohsiung City – 136 km
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268:Liling Bridge (daily means)
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480:Opsariichthys kaopingensis
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51:Native name
1275:Categories
1181:2018-07-02
971:2014-09-05
852:2014-09-05
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336:Wade–Giles
331:Gāopíng Xī
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255:Discharge
1171:"美濃水庫始末"
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398:Liouguei
71:Location
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765:12 June
656:Bridges
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486:History
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