The Dayu Mountains () form a mountain range separating the ''Zhenshui River'' (浈水, the upper
Bei River) of
Pearl River System from ''Zhangshui River'' (章水, one of source streams of
Gan River
The Gan River (, Gan: Kōm-kong) runs north through the western part of Jiangxi before flowing into Lake Poyang and thus the Yangtze River. The Xiang-Gan uplands separate it from the Xiang River of neighboring eastern Hunan.
Two similarly siz ...
) of the
Yangtze River System. The Dayu are a series of mountains located between
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 ...
and
Jiangxi Provinces, one of the Five Ranges in the
Nanling Ranges. The mountain range generally runs southwest to northeast through
Shaoguan
Shaoguan is a prefecture-level city in northern Guangdong Province ( Yuebei), South China, bordering Hunan to the northwest and Jiangxi to the northeast. It is home to the mummified remains of the sixth Zen Buddhist patriarch Huineng. Its built-u ...
of Guangdong and
Ganzhou
Ganzhou (), alternately romanized as Kanchow, is a prefecture-level city in the south of Jiangxi province, China, bordering Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, and Hunan to the west. Its administrative seat is at Zhanggong District.
His ...
of Jiangxi.
References
Shaoguan
Ganzhou
Ranges of the Nanling Mountains
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