The Daliang Mountains () are in the southern part of the
province
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of
Sichuan
Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capital city is Cheng ...
in
China
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. The Daliang rises above the left bank of the
Jinsha (Upper
Yangtze
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) River, opposite the
Wulian Feng in
Yunnan
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Province. This part of the Jinsha River is the last portion to flow through mountainous terrain before entering the
Sichuan Basin
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where the river becomes known as the Yangtze at
Yibin
Yibin ( zh, s=宜宾 , t=宜賓 , p=Yíbīn , w=I-pin, region=CN-SC-15; Sichuanese Pinyin: ȵi2bin1; Sichuanese pronunciation: ) is a prefecture-level city in the southeastern part of Sichuan province, China, located at the junction of the Min ...
.
The Daliang are located within eastern
Liangshan Prefecture, southern
Leshan Prefecture, and western
Yibin Prefecture.
The highest peak of the range is Shizi Mountain (狮子山) at .
The
Chengdu–Kunming Railway passes to the west of Daliang Range, below the
Xiaoxiang Range
The Xiaoxiang Range (; ) is a mountain range in Sichuan Province, China. It is part of a complicated system of mountains in south-central Sichuan, and runs in the general north-south direction within Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture and the adja ...
.
Documentary on the construction of the Chengkun Railway
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References
Mountain ranges of Sichuan
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