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Water features in natural landscape

Water landscape is an important part of natural landscape, where the "gas field" lies. Rivers, lakes, seas, waterfalls, flowing springs and icebergs and snow peaks not only form a landscape alone, but also adorn the surrounding landscape, making the mountains live by water and the sky beautiful by water. The scenery of the water area is dynamic and static, and static and dynamic. It has the following categories.

(1) Rivers and streams: including great rivers and their alluvial famous canyons, such as the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River (Qutang Gorge, Wuxia Gorge and Xiling Gorge), the first bay of the Yangtze River-Tiger Leaping Gorge, the world's largest canyon (the deepest and longest)-Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon, the world's longest river-Nile River, and the landscape corridor-Europe.

It also includes some clean rivers, such as the Lijiang River in Guangxi ("beautiful mountains, beautiful waters, beautiful caves and beautiful stones"), the beautiful Fuchun River-Xin 'anjiang and so on.

In addition, there are mountain stream landscapes, such as Jiuqu Stream in Wuyishan, Fujian, which can be called "three beautiful waters as clear as jade", Jin Bianxi, the soul of Zhangjiajie landscape in western Hunan, and many famous stream landscapes such as the Three Gorges of Daning River, Yuanyang Stream in Fujian and Shennong Stream in Hubei.

(2) Lakes: Dongting Lake, a famous natural lake, is full of water and sky, with boundless romance; Hangzhou West Lake, full of water, wants to compare the West Lake to the West Lake; Dianchi Lake, Kunming, Yunnan; Dali Erhai Lake (Jianshe Lake); Jingbo Lake in Heilongjiang, the largest volcanic dammed lake in China; There is also Tianshan Mountain in Xinjiang. The Caspian Sea, the world's largest saltwater lake, Lake Baikal in Russia, the world's largest freshwater lake group, and the five lakes in North America (Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario) are the lowest places in the world-the Dead Sea at the junction of Jordan and Israel, Lake Geneva in Switzerland, Lake Ness in England and so on.

(3) Waterfalls and flowing springs: The water flowing down from cliffs is called waterfalls.

There are three famous waterfalls in China: Huangguoshu Waterfall in Guizhou (Karst Waterfall), Hukou Waterfall in the Yellow River (Differential Erosion Waterfall), Diaoshuilou Waterfall in Heilongjiang (Volcanic Lava Waterfall), Luxiang Waterfall in Lushan (Structural Waterfall), Sandiequan Waterfall in Lushan, Kaixian Waterfall, Jiuzhaigou Waterfall Group in Sichuan, water curtain cave in Hengshan, Hunan and Yunyungang in Jiangsu. World-famous waterfall landscapes include: the three major waterfalls in the world, namely Victoria Waterfall in Africa, Iguazu Waterfall in South America and Niagara Waterfall in North America, and Angel Waterfall in South America with the largest gap in the world.

The natural outcrop of groundwater exposed to the surface is called a spring.

There are seven famous springs in China, namely, Zhenjiang Zhongleng Spring, Wuxi Huishan Spring (the second spring in the world), Hangzhou Hupao Spring, Shangrao Lu Yu Spring Spring, Yangzhou Slender West Lake Spring, Lushan Zhaoyin Spring and Huaiyuan Bairu Spring. Hunan Anning "the best soup in the world", Anhui Huangshan Tangquan, Guangdong Conghua Hot Spring, Shaanxi Lintong Huaqing Pool, Chongqing Nanbei Hot Spring, and Northeast Wudalianchi Yaoquan with medical care value; Qingdao Laoshan Shenshui Spring (Tsingtao Beer), Sichuan Jinyuquan (Wuliangye) and Guizhou Chishui River Qingquan (Moutai) with brewing function; Baotu Spring in Jinan (Jinan is known as the spring city) has ornamental value, such as Ganlong, Yufeng "the first spring in the world", Shame Spring in Guangyuan, Sichuan, butterfly spring in Dali, Yunnan, Pearl Spring in Jiahe, Hunan, and Fish Spring in Yesanpo, Hebei. The world-famous springs are: the geyser (Old Faithful Geyser) in Yellowstone National Park, USA.

(4) Glacier landscape: mainly waterscape resources with special morphological characteristics and geomorphological landscape characteristics in high altitude areas. Mount Everest Glacier in China, Tianshan No.1 Glacier, Hailuogou Glacier and Xuebaoding Glacier in Sichuan, Qiyi Glacier in Qilian Mountains in Jiayuguan, and the world-famous Mont Blanc, Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Fuji, Arctic Glacier and Antarctic Glacier, etc. Glacier landscape tourism resources mainly depend on mountains, so mountains are generally the first choice for glacier landscape tourism.

(5) Scenic sea area: it is mainly a composite landscape where the coast and the island are integrated. Including tides, tsunamis, sea breeze, mirage and so on. For example, the "spectacular tide of Qiantang River", Yalong Bay in Sanya, Hainan Province has beautiful coral landscape and crescent-shaped beach, which is called "Oriental Hawaii" and "Summer Capital" with beautiful scenery in Beidaihe; World-famous scenic waters include Waikiki Beach in Oahu, Hawaii, USA, which is famous for its beaches, waves and rows of palm trees. Every section of the Mediterranean Sea is famous for its beautiful names such as sky blue coast, emerald coast, golden coast, sunshine coast and bright coast. For example, Spain's famous Sunshine Coast is famous for its sunshine.