Ejin River (Etsin River)

The Ejin River (also rendered Etsin River in older sources) is a closed-basin river in northern China that rises in the Qilian Mountains on the northeastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau and flows north-northeast roughly 630 kilometres to terminate in the Juyan Lake within the Badain Jaran Desert. Geomorphologically it forms one of the world's largest inland deltas and extensive alluvial fans across arid regions. The supplied source is an encyclopedic geographic summary and does not document any shamanic warnings, named spirits, hauntings, apparitions, or specific paranormal incidents connected to the river or its tributaries. Because the research notes consist solely of physical-geographical material, no folkloric narratives, eyewitness reports, or investigatory theories about supernatural activity are available from this source. The absence of such material in the cited source means that claims about shamanic warnings or haunted sites along the Ejin River would be speculative without additional ethnographic or folkloric research.