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Dafengding Nature Reserve
The Dafengding Nature Reserve () is located in Meigu County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, and in the Mabian Yi Autonomous County in Leshan prefecture-level city, both in Sichuan Province in the People's Republic of China. * Elevation: 1240 – 3835 meters (Meigu reserve); 1200–4042 meters (Mabian reserve) * Area: 159.50 sq. kilometers (Meigu reserve); 301.46 sq. kilometers (Mabian reserve) * Established: 1978 The southernmost population of pandas live in this area. Beside the giant panda, fauna in the reserve include: * red panda * Asiatic black bears * blue sheep * giant salamander]* golden snub-nosed monkey, golden monkey * goral * leopard * clouded leopard * macaque * muntjac * sambar (deer), sambar References External links China Species Information Service - Meigu reserveCSIS - Mabian reserve Nature reserves in China Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture Nature reserves of Sichuan Tourist attractions in Sichuan {{Asia-protected-area-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land, the most of any country in the world, tied with Russia. Covering an area of approximately , it is the world's third largest country by total land area. The country consists of 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two Special Administrative Regions (Hong Kong and Macau). The national capital is Beijing, and the most populous city and financial center is Shanghai. Modern Chinese trace their origins to a cradle of civilization in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. The semi-legendary Xia dynasty in the 21st century BCE and the well-attested Shang and Zhou dynasties developed a bureaucratic political system to serve hereditary monarchies, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |