Wenchuan
Namtso Lake
Tiger Leaping Gorge
Three Parallel Rivers |
Wenchuan County is located on the northwest border of Sichuan Basin, in the southeast of Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, about 146 km to the capital city – Chengdu. It is rich in mineral resources as well as animal and plant species; the tourism resources are even more of its distinctive style, which boast natural scenic spots such as the Wolong Nature Reserve, Three-River (the West River, the Middle River, and the Heishi River) Ecological Tourism Zone etc and cultural attractions like Yu culture, Qiang culture, and the cultural site of the Three Kingdoms, and so on. Wenchuan County is not only the hometown of Chinese Ethnic Group Folk Arts – Qiang-style embroidery, but also the hometown of the living fossil of animals – the giant panda. Wolong Giant Panada Research Center, the world’s number one of its kind, is situated in the southwest of the county. |
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Sceneries around Wenchuan
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- Chengdu
- Located in the center of Sichuan Province, Chengdu is the provincial capital of Sichuan, as well...
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- Mount Qingcheng
- Located east to Chengdu and Dujiangyan with a distance of 68 kilometers and 10-odd kilometers...
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- Wolong Nature...
- Wolong Nature Reserve of Sichuan is a state-level nature reserve located in the southeast of...
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- Dujiangyan...
- Dujiangyan irrigation system is located in the west of Dujiangyan City in Sichuan Province. So...
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- Mount Emei
- Mount Emei, a sacred mountain for Buddhists in China, stands towering the southwestern part of...
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- Giant Buddha of...
- Leshan Giant Buddha is a Buddhist stone statue carved in China's Tang Dynasty. It was carved out...
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