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The Tarim Basin is a desert basin lying in westernmost China. The basin is surrounded by high mountains – the Kunlun Mountains to the south, which form the northern edge of the Tibetan Plateau; the Pamir Mountains to the west; and the Tian Shan to the north. The basin is arid, but the surrounding mountains receive considerable rainfall and snow.
Earlier diggings in the southern Tarim Basin, in the 1990s, suggested that Yuansha (Djoumbulak Koum) in the Keriya river valley was the earliest fortified urban site, from around 400 BC, but new surveys and excavations between 2018 and 2020, showed that the site Kuiyukexiehai'er (Koyuk Shahri), located in the northern Tarim Basin, is actually ...
Taiheiyo evergreen forests; Taiheiyo montane deciduous forests; Taimyr–Central Siberian tundra; Taklamakan Desert; Tarim Basin deciduous forests and steppe; Tian Shan foothill arid steppe; Tian Shan montane conifer forests; Tian Shan montane steppe and meadows; Tibesti–Jebel Uweinat montane xeric woodlands; Tibetan Plateau alpine shrublands ...
Eurasia and North America were often connected by the Bering land bridge, ... Tarim Basin deciduous forests and steppe: ... Map of the ecozones
Tehuantepec Canyon and Plain with Low Tropical Deciduous Forest and Low Thorn Forest 14.5.2: South Pacific Hills and Piedmonts with Low Tropical Deciduous Forest 14.6: Sierra and Plains of El Cabo 14.6.1: Los Cabos Plains and Hills with Low Tropical Deciduous Forest and Xeric Shrub 14.6.2: La Laguna Mountains with Oak and Conifer Forests 15
The following is a list of terrestrial ecoregions of the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature.. The transition between two of the planet's eight terrestrial biogeographic realms – the Palearctic, which includes temperate and boreal Eurasia, and Indomalaya, which includes tropical South and Southeast Asia – extends through ...
The centre of the range of Tugay vegetation is the Tarim Basin in north-western China, where the Tarim Huyanglin nature reserve in the middle reaches of the Tarim River holds the largest areas of intact Tugay forests, with a 1993 estimate of about 61% of the total.
Italiano: Mappa dell'Eurasia con la posizione della necropoli di Xiaohe, il bacino di Tarim e gli antichi percorsi della via della Seta. English: Map of Eurasia showing the location of the Xiaohe cemetery, the Tarim Basin, the ancient Silk Road routes and the areas occupied by cultures associated with the settlement of the Tarim Basin.