Tuotuohe railway station (Chinese

Chinese language

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:沱沱河站) is a station on the Chinese Qingzang Railway

Qingzang railway

The Qinghai–Xizang railway, Qingzang railway, or Qinghai–Tibet railway , is a high-elevation railway that connects Xining, Qinghai Province, to Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, in People's Republic of China....

. It is located near the railway bridge over the Tuotuo River (沱沱河, Tuotuo He), which is considered the headwaters of China's great Yangtze River. (Further downstream, it is known in China as the Tongtian River

Tongtian River

The Tongtian River is a section of the Yangtze River within China's Qinghai Province. . It is one of the...

, Jinsha River

Jinsha River

Jinsha River is the westernmost of the major headwater streams of the Yangtze River, southwestern China.Its headwaters rise in the Wulan and Kekexili ranges in western Qinghai province, to the south of the Kunlun Mountains, and on the northern slope of the Tanggula Mountains on the border of the...

, and finally the Changjiang

Changjiang

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).

The station is located next to the main urban area, such as there is, of Tanggula Town.