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Shimen National Forest Park
Shimen National Forest Park is the largest forest park in Guangdong, Guangdong Province. Geography Located in the Tsunghua, Tsunghua District of Guangzhou, Guangzhou City, Guangdong, Guangdong Province, with a total area of 2626.67 hectares and a forest coverage rate of 96.76%. It is 86 kilometers from Guangzhou city and 13 kilometers from the famous Tsunghua, Tsunhua hot spring, bordered by the Nankan Mountain, Nankun Mountain Nature Reserve to the east, and overlooks the Guangzhou Hydroelectric Storage Power Plant and Liushihe National Forest Park to the north. Located in the Subtropics, subtropical zone, the climate is warm all year round with an average annual temperature of 21.4 °C, an average maximum temperature of 28.5 °C from July to August and an average minimum temperature of 12.4 °C from January to February. Establishment history Shimen Park was established on the basis of the state-owned Dalinshan Forest Farm, founded in 1960. In 1995, Shimen Na ...
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Guangdong
) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty near modern Wuzhou, whose name is a reference to an order by Emperor Wu of Han to "widely bestow favors and sow trust". Together, Guangdong and Guangxi are called ''Liangguang, Loeng gwong'' ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t=兩廣, s=两广 , p=liǎng guǎng) During the Song dynasty, the Two Guangs were formally separated as ''Guǎngnán Dōnglù'' ( zh, first=t, t=廣南東路, s=广南东路, l=East Circuit (administrative division), Circuit in Southern Guang , labels=no) and ''Guǎngnán Xīlù'' ( zh, first=t, t=廣南西路, s=广南西路, l=West Circuit (administrative division), Circuit in Southern Guang , labels=no), which became abbreviated as ''Guǎngdōng Lù'' ( zh, first=t, t=廣東路, s=广东路 , labels=no) and ''Guǎngxī Lù ...
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Tsunghua
Conghua District, alternately romanized as Tsungfa, is one of 11 urban districts and the northernmost district of the prefecture-level city of Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong Province, China. Conghua connects the Pearl River Delta with the mountainous area of northern Guangdong. Within China, it is known for its hot springs and lychees. Covering an area of , it is the largest urban district of Guangzhou by area, with a population of 717,684 in 2020. Its GDP was RMB41.668 billion in 2018. History Under the Qing, the area was known as . It was subsequently upgraded to county-level city status and then, on 12 February 2014, to an urban district of Guangzhou. Administrative divisions Climate Transportation Metro Conghua is currently serviced by one metro line operated by the Guangzhou Metro: * - , , , , See also * Conghua city yueyuan animal breeding farm * Guangzhou Guangzhou, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the C ...
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Guangzhou
Guangzhou, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Guangdong Provinces of China, province in South China, southern China. Located on the Pearl River about northwest of Hong Kong and north of Macau, Guangzhou has a history of over 2,200 years and was a major terminus of the Silk Road. The port of Guangzhou serves as a transportation hub for China's fourth largest city and surrounding areas, including Hong Kong. Guangzhou was captured by the United Kingdom, British during the First Opium War and no longer enjoyed a monopoly after the war; consequently it lost trade to other ports such as Hong Kong and Shanghai, but continued to serve as a major entrepôt. Following the Second Battle of Chuenpi in 1841, the Treaty of Nanking was signed between Robert Peel, Sir Robert Peel on behalf of Queen Victoria and Lin Zexu on behalf of Daoguang Emperor, Emperor Xuanzong and ceded British Hong Kong, Hong Kon ...
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Nankan Mountain
The Southern Cliff Buddhist Sculptures ( zh, t=南龕摩崖造像, s=南龛摩崖造像, first=t, p=Nánkān móyá zàoxiàng), also known as Nankan Grottoes ( zh, t=南龕石窟, s=南龛石窟, first=t, p=Nánkān shíkū, labels=no), is a tourist attraction in Bazhong, Sichuan, China. The site is known for its 179 carved grottos which house almost 2,700 painted Buddhist statues. It is located south of Bazhong city proper, and is part of the greater Nankan Mountain Scenic Area. Description The Southern Cliff caves form the largest and best-preserved grottoes in Bazhong, with the existing 179 niche caves. Nannan Mountain is slightly north–south, and the statues are mainly distributed on the east side of several walls, such as Shenxianpo, Yunping stone, and Guanyin Rock, to the east of the Shenxianpo cliff. When the survey was conducted in the summer of 2000, for the convenience of the record, Shenxianpo was divided into two sections in the north and south, and the northern ...
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Subtropics
The subtropical zones or subtropics are geographical and climate zones immediately to the north and south of the tropics. Geographically part of the temperate zones of both hemispheres, they cover the middle latitudes from to approximately 35° to 40° north and south. The horse latitudes lie within this range. Subtropical climates are often characterized by hot summers and mild winters with infrequent frost. Most subtropical climates fall into two basic types: humid subtropical (Köppen climate classification: Cfa/Cwa), where rainfall is often concentrated in the warmest months, for example Southeast China and the Southeastern United States, and dry summer or Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification: Csa/Csb), where seasonal rainfall is concentrated in the cooler months, such as the Mediterranean Basin or Southern California. Subtropical climates can also occur at high elevations within the tropics, such as in the southern end of the Mexican Plateau an ...
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Maple
''Acer'' is a genus of trees and shrubs commonly known as maples. The genus is placed in the soapberry family Sapindaceae.Stevens, P. F. (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 9, June 2008 nd more or less continuously updated since http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb/. There are approximately 132 species, most of which are native to Asia, with a number also appearing in Europe, northern Africa, and North America. Only one species, '' Acer laurinum'', extends to the Southern Hemisphere.Gibbs, D. & Chen, Y. (2009The Red List of Maples Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) The type species of the genus is the sycamore maple ''Acer pseudoplatanus'', one of the most common maple species in Europe.van Gelderen, C. J. & van Gelderen, D. M. (1999). '' Maples for Gardens: A Color Encyclopedia'' Most maples usually have easily identifiable palmate leaves (with a few exceptions, such as '' Acer carpinifolium'', '' Acer laurinum'', and '' Acer negundo'' ...
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Sapium Discolor
''Triadica cochinchinensis'' is a species of tree known as the mountain tallow tree. The seeds (as well as from those of ''Triadica sebifera'') are the sources of stillingia oil, a drying oil used in paints and varnishes. The fatty coat of the seeds is known as stillingia tallow, hence its common name. The two species were formerly classified in the genus ''Stillingia'', as ''Stillingia discolor'' and ''Stillingia sebifera'' (hence the name of the oil and tallow). At some time before 1950, this tree was reclassified into the genus ''Sapium'' as ''Sapium discolor''. In 2002 or so it was reclassified again into the genus ''Triadica ''Triadica'' is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1790. It is native to eastern southeastern, and southern Asia. Species included are: # '' Triadica cochinchinensis'' Lour. - China (Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, ...'' with its present name. Synonyms The following synonyms and former names have been listed for ''Tri ...
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Red Maple
''Acer rubrum'', the red maple, also known as swamp maple, water maple, or soft maple, is one of the most common and widespread deciduous trees of eastern and central North America. The U.S. Forest Service recognizes it as the most abundant native tree in eastern North America. The red maple ranges from southeastern Manitoba around the Lake of the Woods on the border with Ontario and Minnesota, east to Newfoundland, south to Florida, and southwest to East Texas. Many of its features, especially its leaves, are quite variable in form. At maturity, it often attains a height around . Its flowers, petioles, twigs, and seeds are all red to varying degrees. Among these features, however, it is best known for its brilliant deep scarlet foliage in autumn. Over most of its range, red maple is adaptable to a very wide range of site conditions, perhaps more so than any other tree in eastern North America. It can be found growing in swamps, on poor, dry soils, and almost anywhere in between. ...
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National Parks
A national park is a nature park designated for conservation (ethic), conservation purposes because of unparalleled national natural, historic, or cultural significance. It is an area of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that is protected and owned by a government. Although governments hold different standards for national park designation, the conservation of 'wild nature' for posterity and as a symbol of national pride is a common motivation for the continued protection of all national parks around the world. National parks are almost always accessible to the public.Gissibl, B., S. Höhler and P. Kupper, 2012, ''Civilizing Nature, National Parks in Global Historical Perspective'', Berghahn, Oxford Usually national parks are developed, owned and managed by national governments, though in some countries with federal government, federal or Devolution, devolved forms of government, "national parks" may be the responsibility of subnational, regional, or local authorities. Th ...
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