Daxue Mountains

Daxue Range
Daxue Range
	Glaciers on the Gongga Shan
Highest point
Peak	Gongga Shan (Minya Konka)
Elevation	7,556 m (24,790 ft) [1]
Coordinates	29°35′48″N 101°52′43″E
Naming
Native name	大雪山山脉 (Chinese)
Geography
	Daxue Range Location in Sichuan
Location	Sichuan
Region	Asia
Parent range	Hengduan Mountains

The Daxue Range or Daxue Mountains (Chinese: 大雪山山脉, 大雪山; pinyin: Dàxuě Shān; Wade–Giles: Ta⁴-hsüeh³ Shan¹; lit. 'Great Snow Mountains') are a great mountain range in the western part of Sichuan province in Southwest China. It is part of the Hengduan Mountains, a complicated system of mountain ranges of western Sichuan, which itself is adjacent to the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau.

Geography

The Daxue Mountain Range runs for several hundred kilometers in a general north-south direction, mostly within Sichuan's Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

The Daxue Range marks a transitional zone between the arid Tibetan Plateau and the wetter Sichuan Basin.[2] It separates the basins of the Yalong River (to the west) and the Dadu River (to the east). Both rivers flow in the general southern direction, and are tributaries of the Yangtze.

The tallest peak of the range, the Gongga Shan (Minya Konka), measures 7,556 meters in height. It is located in the southern part of the range.[3]

To the east and south of the Gongga Shan, the Daxue Mountains are adjacent to the smaller Daxiangling and Xiaoxiangling ranges, which, however, are usually considered by cartographers as separate ranges.[4]

References

Gongga Shan - Peakbagger
Ramesh Chandra Bisht, International Encyclopaedia Of Himalayas, Vol. 1 p. 93
Territories of the People's Republic of China
E.g., 使用中国地图集 (Shiyong Zhongguo Dituji, "Practical Atlas of China"), 2008, ISBN 978-7-5031-4772-2; map of Sichuan on pp. 142-143

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Sichuan Information

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[1] Gongga Shan - Peakbagger

[2] Ramesh Chandra Bisht, International Encyclopaedia Of Himalayas, Vol. 1 p. 93

[3] Territories of the People's Republic of China

[4] E.g., 使用中国地图集 (Shiyong Zhongguo Dituji, "Practical Atlas of China"), 2008, ISBN 978-7-5031-4772-2; map of Sichuan on pp. 142-143

Mountain ranges of China
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Daxue Mountains

Geography

See also

References

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