Diqing’s natural and human geography features plus map

Territory

Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is located at the junction of the three provinces of Yunnan, Tibet and Sichuan in the northwest of Yunnan Province, with a total area of ??23,870 square kilometers. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region to the northwest and Sichuan Province to the east. It borders Lijiang City to the southeast and Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture to the west. The highest altitude within the territory is Kawagbo Peak, the main peak of Meili Snow Mountain, at 6,740 meters, which is also the highest in Yunnan Province. The lowest altitude is the Lancang River Valley, with an altitude of 1,486 meters, and an absolute height difference of 5,254 meters. The huge height difference within a small range has caused the emergence of Vertical climate and three-dimensional ecological environment characteristics. Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is the highest and only Tibetan autonomous prefecture in Yunnan Province. Jiantang Town, Shangri-La County, where the state capital is located, is 608 kilometers away from Kunming, the provincial capital.

Landform

Scenery of Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (2 photos)

Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is located on the southeastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, in the hinterland of the Hengduan Mountains, to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. The transition zone of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has unique landforms: there are ancient plateaus, mountains, rivers, and gorges. It is the heart of the world-famous landscape of Three Parallel Rivers.

Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture has Meili Snow Mountain, Baimang Snow Mountain, Haba, Balagezong and other snow mountain groups with the lowest latitude in the northern hemisphere, and has rare low altitudes (2,700 meters above sea level) such as Mingyongqia and Sqia. Modern glaciers. Mountain lakes such as Goddess Qianhu Mountain, Bita Sea, Shuodu Lake, Napa Sea, and Swan Lake are the purest freshwater lakes in the Asian continent. Beautiful meadows such as Xiaozhongdian and Shuodu Lake account for 1% of the land area of ??Diqing Prefecture. /5.

Climate

The climate in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is a temperate-cold temperate climate, with an annual average temperature of 4.7℃-16.5℃, an annual extreme maximum temperature of 25.1℃, and a minimum temperature of -27.4℃ . The three-dimensional climate is obvious, and there is a saying that "one mountain has four seasons, and ten miles have different weather".