Tiger Leaping Gorge: Lijiang Bank

The Lijiang bank is one administrative side of Tiger Leaping Gorge. River, cliff and route descriptions need to be located on the particular bank they discuss.

A muddy river bends between steep, close mountain walls in the upper gorge. — A view into the upper Tiger Leaping Gorge, with the Jinsha River running below steep rock walls. The Commons page places the photograph at the gorge's beginning north of Lijiang but does not identify which bank; it is used for the shared gorge landscape, not as proof of a Lijiang-bank viewpoint.

Tiger Leaping Gorge: Lijiang Bank

The Lijiang Bank of Tiger Leaping Gorge

The gorge is one river landscape, but the visitor area described as Lijiang’s Tiger Leaping Gorge occupies a particular stretch of its southern bank.

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A view into the upper Tiger Leaping Gorge, with the Jinsha River running below steep rock walls. The Commons page places the photograph at the gorge's beginning north of Lijiang but does not identify which bank; it is used for the shared gorge landscape, not as proof of a Lijiang-bank viewpoint.Arian Zwegers · 1995-06-04 · CC BY 2.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized without cropping or upscaling; converted to WebP.