Mount Zheduo
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Mount Zheduo (, ) belongs to the remnants of the Gongga Mountain in the middle of the
Daxue Mountains The Daxue Range or Daxue Mountains () are a great mountain range in the western part of Sichuan province in Southwest China. It is part of the Hengduan Mountains, a complicated system of mountain ranges of western Sichuan, which itself is adjacen ...
, towering over the western section of the
Sichuan Basin The Sichuan Basin (), formerly transliterated as the Szechwan Basin, sometimes called the Red Basin, is a lowland region in southwestern China. It is surrounded by mountains on all sides and is drained by the upper Yangtze River and its tributar ...
. Mount Zheduo is the watershed between the
Dadu River The Dadu River (, ), known in Tibetan as the Gyelmo Ngul Chu (), is a major river located primarily in Sichuan province, southwestern China. The Dadu flows from the eastern Tibetan Plateau into the Sichuan Basin where it joins with the Min Rive ...
and the
Yalong River The Yalong River ( zh, 雅砻江, Pinyin, p ''Yǎlóngjiāng'', Wade–Giles, w ''Ya-lung Chiang'', Help:IPA/Mandarin, IPA ), or Nyag Chu (Standard Tibetan, Tibetan: , Tibetan pinyin, z ''Nyag Qu''), is a major tributary ...
, and is also the dividing line between Han and Tibetan culture. To the west of the Mount Zheduo is the traditional Kham Tibetan area. The Zheduo Pass () that National Highway 318 needs to cross is located at an altitude of above sea level; it is the first mountain pass on the road that needs to be crossed over 4,000 meters, hence the title "The First Pass of Kham".


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