well its also called the haung hu river

i am sorry i mmeant haung HE river

it is called the yellow river because of the loess it carries. GO FIGURE!

actually Huang He just means yellow river in chinese.

it is called the yellow river because of its rich soil

its yellow because of the amount of fine grained silt it carries [and im ten!]

Love China's Yellow river

It is also called the river of sorrow because of all the floods it is causing.

It is known as the yellow river because the rocks it runs through(underground) and runs over(as a river)are rich in a type of rock crystal known as loess. this 'loess' turns the colour of the river to a sort of ochre yellow colour - which is where it gets its name from. When the loess is dropped by the river it creates natural dams which makes it flood - the worst flood being in 1938 when it took the lives of some 2,000,000 - 4,000,000 people.

because the river is yellow.yellow river flow though my hometown ,i'm quite sure about it