Three Parallel Rivers: Diqing Region

The Jinsha, Lancang and Nu run through separate mountain corridors. The World Heritage property protects selected clusters within this much larger regional landscape.

A pale river runs along the floor of a deep, steep-sided mountain gorge beneath a cloudy sky. — A river cuts through a steep mountain canyon in the Three Parallel Rivers region. Commons records the viewpoint in Diqing Prefecture; this is a regional landscape photograph, not proof of a particular village or all three rivers being visible together.

Three Parallel Rivers: Diqing Region

The Three Parallel Rivers Are More Than Lines on a Map

In northwest Yunnan, the Jinsha, Lancang and Nu rivers cut deep corridors through a mountain system. Their UNESCO listing protects selected clusters, not every part of the immense region named by the rivers.

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A river cuts through a steep mountain canyon in the Three Parallel Rivers region. Commons records the viewpoint in Diqing Prefecture; this is a regional landscape photograph, not proof of a particular village or all three rivers being visible together.xiquinhosilva (Flickr); uploaded to Commons by Shujianyang · 2013-04-16 · CC BY 2.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized without cropping or upscaling; converted to WebP.