The Three Gorges Yichang. Travel Three Gorges Dam (Three Gorges Dam surrounding tourist route). Yichang City is located in the western part of Hubei Province, at the convergence of the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, where Chongqing, Hubei, and Hunan provinces meet. The Golden Waterway of the Yangtze River flows through the city for 232 kilometers. The Yichang Port is one of the eight major ports on the Yangtze River, and the Zhicheng Port is one of the four largest coal transfer ports in China.