Chaonan District has 26 tributaries and 142 reservoirs. Chaonan District, a district of Shantou City, Guangdong Province, is located in the southwest of Shantou City, bordering the South China Sea in the east, Puning in the west, Huilai County in the south, and Chaoyang District in the north. The total area of the district is 599.87 square kilometers.
How many tributaries and reservoirs are there in Chaonan District?
Chaonan District is rich in natural resources and is close to mountains and sea. The mountainous area of the whole district is 382300 mu, accounting for 40.28% of the total mountainous area of Shantou City.
Chaonan District has a profound cultural heritage. It belonged to Baiyue in the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, and Haiyang State (Nanou State) in the Xia and Shang dynasties.
Chaonan area is a coastal hilly plain area, with the terrain tilting from southwest to northeast. The terrain features "one mountain, one river and one plain"