Daning River

The Daning River rises in the Zhongnan Mountains at Pingli in Shaanxi and runs south through Wuxi and Wushan counties to the Yangtze at Wushan. It is a first-level tributary of the upper Yangtze and the largest tributary in the Three Gorges basin, anciently called Changjiang and also known as Wuxi, after the county it crosses first. Its tributaries include the Madu River. In its Wushan section its Longmen, Bawu and Dicui gorges are the Little Three Gorges. On the way down it passes the salt town of Ningchang and the cliff coffins of Jingzhuba, both still on the county's lists.