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Chengdu Yunnan tour group

Tour groups from Chengdu to Yunnan can find travel agencies in Chengdu, which is safer and more reliable.

Yunnan Province, called Yun or Dian for short, is one of the 23 provinces in China, located in the southwest of China, with Kunming as its capital. It is between 218 ′ ~ 2915 ′ north latitude and 97 31′ ~1061′ east longitude. It borders Guizhou and Guangxi in the east, Sichuan in the north and Tibet in the northwest.

Yunnan Province is a low-latitude inland area, with the Tropic of Cancer running across the south, with high terrain in the northwest and low terrain in the southeast, and gradually descending from north to south. It belongs to mountainous plateau topography, and the mountainous area accounts for 88.64% of the total area of the province, spanning six major water systems: Yangtze River, Pearl River, Yuanjiang River, Lancang River, Nujiang River and Daying River. The climate of Yunnan province basically belongs to subtropical and tropical monsoon climate, while the northwest of Yunnan belongs to plateau and mountain climate. Yunnan province ranks first in the number of animal and plant species in the country and is known as the kingdom of animals and plants.

topography

Yunnan belongs to mountainous plateau topography, in which the middle altitude area of 1000 ~ 3500m accounts for 87.2 1% of the whole province's land area, and most of Yunnan Province is located in the middle altitude area. The area below the slope of 25 degrees accounts for 56.46% of the land area. In terms of landform types, the areas of plains, terraces, hills and mountains account for 4.85%, 1.55%, 4.96% and 88.64% respectively.

The terrain is bounded by Yuanjiang Valley and Kuangu in the southern section of Yunling Mountain Range, which is divided into two major terrain areas: East Yunnan Plateau and Central Yunnan Plateau. It is a part of Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, with an average elevation of about 2,000 meters. It is gentle and undulating with round hills, and various types of karst landforms are developed. Mountains and canyons alternate in the west, and the terrain is steep. The relative height difference between mountains and canyons exceeds1000m and 5000m.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Yunnan