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'Cloudy Peaks') are a mountain range running north–south in northwestern Yunnan province, China. They were formerly romanized as the Yun Ling and tautologically as the Yun-ling Mountains. The Yun Range runs between the Lancang River (Mekong) to the west and Jinsha River (Yangtze) to the east. The range is a major component of the greater ...
Lincang mountains Girl riding a yak in Yunnan. Yunnan is China's most diverse province, biologically as well as culturally. [46] The province contains snow-capped mountains and true tropical environments, thus supporting an unusually full spectrum of species and vegetation types. The Yunnan camellia (Camellia reticulata) is the provincial ...
Across the Red River to the southwest, the Ailao Mountains form a definitive barrier. [1] [6] The high mountain peaks of Eastern Tibet are the source of many of Asia's great rivers, which flow southerly towards the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau. [7] The rivers split around the plateau, with the Salween and Mekong keeping south and the Yangtze ...
Meili Snow Mountains main peak as looking up from the bottom of the mountain. Meili Snow Mountains (Chinese: 梅里雪山; pinyin: Méilǐ Xuěshān), Mainri (སྨན་རི།) or Minling Snow Mountains (Tibetan: སྨིན་གླིང་གངས་རི།, Wylie: smin gling gangs ri [1]) is a mountain range in the Chinese province of Yunnan.
Jade Dragon Snow Mountain (simplified Chinese: 玉龙雪山; traditional Chinese: 玉龍雪山; pinyin: Yùlóng Xuěshān; Naxi: Jingv'lv or Ngv'lv bbei jjuq) is a mountain massif or small mountain range in Yulong Naxi Autonomous County, Lijiang, in Yunnan province, China.
The Meili Xueshan range from Fei Lai Si. Kawa Garbo or Khawa Karpo (Tibetan: ཁ་བ་དཀར་པོ།, ZYPY: Kawagarbo; also transcribed as Kawadgarbo, Khawakarpo, Moirig Kawagarbo, Kawa Karpo or Kha-Kar-Po), as it is known by local residents and pilgrims, or Kawagebo Peak (Chinese: 卡瓦格博), is the highest mountain in the Chinese province of Yunnan. [2]
The Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas (Chinese: 云南三江并流; pinyin: Yúnnán Sānjiāng Bìngliú) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Yunnan province, China. It lies within the drainage basins of the upper reaches of the Jinsha , Lancang and Nujiang rivers, in the Yunnan section of the Hengduan Mountains.
Laojun Mountain region is a biodiversity hotspot. [1] [3] Laojun Mountain has over 170 species of macrofungi (), [4] about 10% of all rhododendrons in the world, and it is one of the few remaining places where the endangered Yunnan snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus bieti) can be found. [2]