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Water, stone and high valleys

A regional view of Sichuan

Follow the Min and the Yangtze, then climb into the high valleys, to see how the regions and their places sit across Sichuan. Points are representative references, not boundaries, gates or routes.

Sichuan
Chengdu Deyang Leshan Ya'an Aba Ganzi Liangshan Yibin Zigong Heming Teahouse Jinsha Site Dujiangyan Sanxingdui Leshan Giant Buddha Mount Emei Mengding Mountain Dengchigou Hejiangmen Shenhai Well Jiuzhaigou Huanglong Taoping Qiang Village Suopo Towers Dege Printing House Jianchang Ancient City Mianyang Guangyuan Meishan Nanchong Luzhou Li Bai Memorial Yuewang Tower Mianyang Science City Qianfo Cliff Mingyue Gorge Huangze Temple Sansu Shrine Qingshen Bamboo Weaving Langzhong Ancient City Nanchong Silk Park Luzhou Old Pits Fubao Ancient Town Wuhou Shrine Du Fu Thatched Cottage

Approximate regional orientation · north is up · not for navigation

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Aba.

Aba is a highland prefecture of deep valleys and Tibetan and Qiang villages. Jiuzhaigou and Huanglong are its best-known landscapes; Taoping shows a different, built response to the same mountains.

Panda Lake in Jiuzhaigou
Panda Lake in Jiuzhaigou

Aba

Panda Lake in Jiuzhaigou

Water in layers

Jiuzhaigou's colour comes from a staircase of travertine barriers, fallen trees and clear water moving slowly from lake to lake.

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Jiuzhaigou

The villages the park kept

Jiuzhaigou's name counts nine villages; three remain inside the park, where households still work fields beside a fixed visitor route.

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Places

Jiuzhaigou

A 720-square-kilometre valley of lakes, waterfalls and forest in Jiuzhaigou County.

Huanglong

A 7.5-kilometre travertine valley below Xuebaoding in Songpan.

Taoping Qiang Village

A Qiang village in Lixian with a maze of lanes, an underground water network and a watchtower.
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  1. Panda Lake in JiuzhaigouCEphoto, Uwe Aranas / CC BY-SA 3.0 · CC BY-SA 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Orientation normalised, proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop or retouch.
  2. Travertine pools at Huanglongxiquinhosilva / CC BY 2.0 · CC BY 2.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Orientation normalised, proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop or retouch.
  3. Taoping Qiang VillageNyx Ning / CC BY-SA 3.0 · CC BY-SA 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Orientation normalised, proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop or retouch.