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The Chi River (Thai: แม่น้ำชี, RTGS: Maenam Chi, pronounced [mɛ̂ːnáːm t͡ɕʰīː]) is the longest river flowing wholly within Thailand. It is 765 kilometres (475 mi) long but carries less water than the second longest river, the Mun. The name of the river is "Mae Si" ([sīː]) in the Isan and Lao languages of the region, being transliterated as "Chi" in Bangkok-Thai. In wet seasons there are often flash floods in the floodplain of the Chi River basin.[1]

Chi River
Chi River on december 2020 bordering between Yasothon and Roi Et province.
Map of the Mun River watershed showing the Chi River
Native nameMae Si (Thai)
Physical characteristics
Source 
  locationChaiyaphum
Mouth 
  location
Mun river, Sisaket Province
  elevation
110 m (360 ft)
Length1,047 km (651 mi)
Basin size49,480 km2 (19,100 sq mi)
Discharge 
  locationYasothon
  average290 m3/s (10,000 cu ft/s)
  maximum3,960 m3/s (140,000 cu ft/s)

Course


The river rises in the Phetchabun mountains, then runs east through the central Isan provinces of Chaiyaphum, Khon Kaen, and Maha Sarakham, then turns south in Roi Et, runs through Yasothon and joins the Mun in the Kanthararom district of Sisaket Province. The river carries approximately 9.3 cubic kilometres (2.2 cu mi) of water per annum.[2]

The river was an 18th-century migration route for the re-peopling of the Khorat Plateau by ethnic Lao people from the left (east) bank of the Mekong resettling on the right bank. This began in 1718 when the first king of the left bank Kingdom of Champasak, King Nokasad, sent a group of some 3,000 subjects led by an official in his service to found the first settlement in the Chi River valley—and indeed anywhere in the interior of the Khorat Plateau—Muang Suwannaphum in present-day Roi Et Province[3] (a history recorded and remembered, largely in terms of the struggle to expand wet-rice cultivation in the river valley). Their descendants are now regarded as a separate ethnic group from the Lao to the north and the central Thai to the southwest.[citation needed]


Pop culture


Chi river is the setting of a Thai TV drama on Channel 7 HD, titled Chart Lam Chi (ชาติลำชี; The River Chi's Protector). It was an action-drama TV series that aired from March 14 to April 25, 2018, remake from namesake film in 1969 (starred by Mitr Chaibancha and Petchara Chaowarat).[4]


References


  1. Water level in Chi River still high
  2. Delineation of flood hazards and risk mapping in the Chi River Basin
  3. Charles F. Keyes (1976). "In Search of Land: Village Formation in the Central Chi River Valley, Northeastern Thailand". In Brow, James (ed.). Contributions to Asian studies. Vol. 9: Population, Land and Structural Change in Sri Lanka and Thailand. Leiden: Brill. p. 47. ISBN 90-04-04529-5.
  4. "เรื่องย่อชาติลำชี" [Chart Lam Chi's synopsis]. Ch 7 HD (in Thai).

Further reading






На других языках


[de] Mae Nam Chi

Der Mae Nam Chi (Thai: .mw-parser-output .Thai{font-size:115%}แม่น้ำชี, „Chi-Fluss“), oder nur Chi, ist nach dem Mun der zweitgrößte Fluss in der Nordostregion von Thailand, dem so genannten Isan.
- [en] Chi River

[it] Chi (fiume)

Il fiume Chi (in lingua thai: แม่น้ำชี, RTGS: Mae Nam Chi, IPA: mɛ̂ːnáːm tɕʰīː; in lingua isan: Mae Si, IPA: mɛːsīː) è il fiume più lungo fra quelli che scorrono per intero in Thailandia.[1] È lungo 765 km e si getta nelle acque del Mun, che è più corto ed ha una portata maggiore. Nella stagione delle piogge, la valle del Chi è soggetta a frequenti inondazioni.[2]

[ru] Чи (река)

Чи (тайск. แม่น้ำชี) — река в Северо-Восточном Таиланде. Длина реки — 765 км. Площадь водосборного бассейна — 9300 км². Не считая приграничных рек Салуина и Меконга, это самая длинная река Таиланда (Чаупхрая имеет длину 372 км, если считать от места слияния рек Пинг и Нан).



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