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Chiny / China
Wodospady Hukou na Huang-ho w Chinach;
bloczek wydany 8 listopada 2002 roku.
Hukou Waterfalls
along the Huanghe River in China; the block issued on November 8, 2002.
Coll. A. Kozlowski
NOTE: The Hukou waterfall on the Huanghe River west of Jixian County, Shanxi, is formed when the river flows to the Hukou Mountains on the Shanxi-Shaanxi border and its 250-meter-wide bed, sandwiched between the canyons on its banks, abruptly narrows into a trough 50 meters wide and 30 meters deep and falls down into a big stone-strewn pool. The section of the river here is like the mouth of a water-flash. Hence the name of the waterfall, which means “ Flask Mouth waterfall”. The waterfall has a descent of 15-20 meters in the low-water season, but it is scarcely noticeable as a waterfall in the high-water season when the waters burst into rapid torrents. The section is rich in hydroelectric power potential. (china.org.cn)
