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The Stone Forest or Shilin (Chinese: 石 林; pinyin: Shílín) is a notable set of limestone formations about 500 km 2 located in Shilin Yi Autonomous County, Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China, near Shilin approximately 90 km (56 mi) from the provincial capital Kunming.
Red Stone Gorge (Jin Chinese: 紅石峽, [xwəŋ˧ ʂəʔ˨˩˧ ɕjɑʔ˧]; [1] Mandarin pinyin: Hóngshíxiá) is a gorge and attraction in Yulin, Shaanxi, China featuring 200 sandstone cliff inscriptions and 34 rock-cut grottos with Buddhist clay statues in the grottoes.
10 National Forest Parks of China. 11 National Wood (Flower) ... (Hongshilin: “Red Stone Forest”, formed by red carbonate rocks) Jiubujiang National Geopark;
The Shilin (Stone Forest), a set of remarkable karst formations, is part of the South China Karst, inscribed in 2007 on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Dadieshui Waterfall is the largest waterfall in Yunnan province, located at the southwest of county urban.
UNESCO describes the South China Karst as "unrivalled in terms of the diversity of its karst features and landscapes". [1] The huge karst area of South China is about 550,000 km 2 in extent. The karst terrain displays a geomorphic transition as the terrain gradually descends about 2000 meters over 700 kilometers from the western Yunnan-Guizhou ...
Stone forest (石林) in Chinese refers to pinnacle-shaped karst, [13] such as the ones in the Yellow River Stone Forest. The park has a total area of 50 square kilometres (19 sq mi), and the ancient stone forest group covers 10 square kilometres (3.9 sq mi), which is formed in the lower Pleistocene Wuquanshan proluvial gravel layer 2.1 million ...
Hongshilin (红石林, "Red Stone Forest") National Geopark is located on the reservoir's bank northeast of town The Luoyixi Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point is named after the town. The actual point is on the shore of the Fengtan Reservoir, some 4 km northwest (upstream) from Luoyixi Town, halfway to the neighboring Wangcun Town .
China Danxia is a type of karst landform characterized by red sandstone cliffs and a range of erosional landscapes, including natural pillars, towers, ravines, valleys, and waterfalls. Danxia formations are spread across several regions in southeastern and southwestern China, including areas in Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, and Zhejiang ...