The Tizinafu River (Uyghur: تىزناپ دەرياسى, Tiznap deryasi; Chinese: 提兹那甫河, 提孜那甫河), also spelled Tiznef River, [5] Tiznaf River, [6] Tiznap River, [7] Tizinapu River,[8] formerly known as the Tingzaabu River (听杂阿布河),[9] is a river in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region[10] of the People's Republic of China, located in southeast Kashi,[11] originates in the northern slope of the Kunlun Mountains.
[12] Historically, the Tizinafu River was once a tributary of the Yarkand River and gradually evolved into an independent river under water diversion from the plain irrigation area.
[13] The river has a total length of 335 kilometers, [14] a catchment area of about 20,390 square kilometers, and an average annual runoff of about 845 million cubic meters.