Heishixia

Heishixia, Black Stone Gorge, belongs to the limestone country of southern Qijiang, in the hills that run down to the Guizhou border. The district around it is mineral ground: limestone and dolomite, pyrite, and coal seams proven at 2 billion tonnes, in a district of 2,747.8 square kilometres and 1.22 million people. Qijiang was formed in 2011 from Qijiang County and Wansheng District, and its southern side meets Guizhou. The gorge is a place of stone and water rather than of monuments. What the district records about itself is its rock, its seams and its fossil tracks; the gorge is read from the ground it cuts through.