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Dingxi tourist attractions

Dingxi tourist attractions include: Guiqing Mountain and Majiayao Ruins.

1. Guiqing Mountain: Located 72 kilometers south of Zhang County, Dingxi City, Gansu Province, it is the most beautiful natural scenic spot on the Loess Plateau in central Longxi Province. It is now a national AAAA-level forest park and is known as the Longxi Mountain. "Xiaohua Mountain" and "Guiqing Wonderland" in the "Xiaohua Mountain". Guiqing Mountain is a limestone zone with numerous peaks, strange rocks like clouds, and virgin forests. There are more than 500 species of medicinal and ornamental plants, and it is known as a natural botanical garden.

2. Majiayao Ruins: Located at the mouth of Mayu Valley on the west bank of the Tao River, 10 kilometers southwest of Lintao County, Gansu Province, it is a site from the Neolithic Age to the Bronze Age in the upper reaches of the Yellow River. The site is located on a terrace on the west bank of the Tao River. First discovered and conducted archaeological excavation in 1924, the site is 280 meters wide from north to south and 350 meters long from east to west, covering an area of ??approximately 90,000 square meters.

Geographical environment of Dingxi

Dingxi City is located in the middle of Gansu Province, known as "Longzhong" in ancient times. It borders Tianshui City to the east, Lanzhou City to the west, Baiyin City to the north, and Longnan City to the south. And it borders Gannan Prefecture and Linxia Prefecture. It is located between 34°26'~35°35' north latitude and 103°52'~105°13° east longitude. The city's total area is 19,600 square kilometers.

Dingxi City is affected by the Qinling Mountains, Qilian Folds, Liupan Mountain branches and the Loess Plateau. The landform is relatively complex, with undulating hills, crisscross ravines, mountains, ridges, beams, peaks, Xian, piers, mouths and tops. , peaks, slopes, flats, platforms, cliffs, ridges, valleys, ditches, forks, bays, ridges, beaches, pits, rivers, river valleys and other types of terrain are intertwined.

Dingxi is located at the intersection of the Loess Plateau and the West Qinling Mountains. The terrain is highly undulating, with crisscrossing mountains of various shapes. In the five counties of Dingxi, Longxi, Tongwei, Lintao and Weiyuan in the north, the natural area is a loess hilly and gully area, interspersed with stony, semi-stony low and mid-mountain mountain belts. Ridges and beams are larger mountains, with undulating ridges and sometimes steep and sometimes gentle slopes.

The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia-Dingxi City Baidu Encyclopedia-Guiqing Mountain