Jiaozi Snow Mountain ( zh, s=轿子雪山, t=轎子雪山, p=Jiàozǐ Xuěshān) is a mountain located in northern central
Yunnan
Yunnan; is an inland Provinces of China, province in Southwestern China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 47.2 million (as of 2020). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the Chinese provinces ...
,
China
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.
The mountain peak lies on the border
Dongchuan District and
Luquan County in
Kunming
Kunming is the capital and largest city of the province of Yunnan in China. The political, economic, communications and cultural centre of the province, Kunming is also the seat of the provincial government. During World War II, Kunming was a Ch ...
city-level prefecture.
The peak is the highest point in the Eastern
Yungui Plateau and the highest point of the
Gongwang Mountains.
Jiaozi Snow Mountain is drained on all sides by tributaries of the
Yangtze River
The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ) is the longest river in Eurasia and the third-longest in the world. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains of the Tibetan Plateau and flows including Dam Qu River the longest source of the Yangtze, i ...
, whose main stem flows past 20 km to the northwest.
References
Mountains of Yunnan
Geography of Kunming
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