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Which province and city is Yuntai Mountain Scenic Area located in?

Henan province. Yuntai Mountain is located in Xiuwu County, Jiaozuo City, Henan Province, with the north latitude of 35 25'19.78 "and the east longitude of113 25'10.07". It is located 80 kilometers northwest of Zhengzhou, the provincial capital, with a total area of 240 square kilometers. Include Hongshi Gorge, Tanpu Gorge, Quanpu Gorge, Qinglong Gorge, Linfeng Gorge, Zifang Lake, Cornus officinalis Peak, Diecai Cave, Macaque Valley, Baijiayan and Wanshan Temple.

Yuntai Mountain Scenic Area is named after the high mountains and steep slopes and the misty peaks and valleys all year round. The main peak of Yuntai Mountain, Cornus officinalis Peak, is1.308m above sea level, and there is Yuntai Waterfall with a drop of 31.4m.. It is one of the largest waterfalls found in China, located at the end of the spring waterfall gorge.

On February 13, 2004, Yuntai Mountain Scenic Area was selected as the first batch of world geoparks by UNESCO. On May 8, 2007, Yuntai Mountain Scenic Area was approved as a national AAAAA-level tourist attraction. In June 20 14, Yuntai Mountain Scenic Area was listed as a natural scenery tourism project in key tourist areas of resource-based cities.

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Yuntai Mountain Scenic Area consists of Mesoproterozoic Jixian Yunmengshan Formation and Upper Carboniferous Taiyuan Formation, which were formed 654.38+400-300 million years ago, and the outcrop system is complete.

There are Archean-Early Proterozoic basements, as well as typical structural relics, such as Archean gneiss complex structure in basement, basement dome structure of early Proterozoic supracrustal rocks, overlying structure of caprock, ductile shear zone structure, ductile-brittle deformation structure, brittle fracture structure, unilateral mountain structure, collapse structure and landslide structure in caprock, etc.