Tenglong Cave () is a cave located from
Lichuan City,
Hubei
Hubei is a province of China, province in Central China. It has the List of Chinese provincial-level divisions by GDP, seventh-largest economy among Chinese provinces, the second-largest within Central China, and the third-largest among inland ...
, China. It is believed to be the longest monomer
karst cave
Karst () is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble carbonate rocks such as limestone and dolomite. It is characterized by features like poljes above and drainage systems with sinkholes and caves underground. There is some eviden ...
system in the world. The cave entrance is and wide, leading to of passageways.
[.] An underground network of streams runs for whilst the cave is the source of the
Qingjiang River
The Qing River () is a right (southern) tributary of the Yangtze River, Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) in Hubei province of south-central China.,
Geography
Course
The Qing River river source, Headwaters originate at Teng Long Dong, Tenglong Cave ...
. Year round temperatures underground remain in the 16–18 degrees Celsius range.
To facilitate tourist access to the cave, as well as to the so-called Enshi Grand Canyon Scenic Area (), the
prefectural authorities are considering plans for the construction of a
tourist railway
A heritage railway or heritage railroad (U.S. usage) is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past. Heritage railways are often old railway lines preserved in a state depicting a period (or periods) ...
, which will link these two popular tourist attractions with a station on the
Yichang−Wanzhou Railway (probably,
Lichuan).
[Wang Gongshang (王功尚), Li Yuhui (李玉辉),]
恩施有望开建内地首条森林旅游观光铁路
(Enshi is looking forward to the construction of the mainland's first forest scenic tourist railway), 荆楚网-楚天都市报, 2013-12-25
See also
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List of caves in China
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List of longest caves
This list of longest caves includes caves in which the combined length of documented passageways exceeds . In some of these caves, passageways are still being discovered.
Geographical distribution
Caves are found around the world. The largest ...
References
External links
Photo gallery of Tenglong Cave
Caves of Hubei
Karst caves
Karst formations of China
Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture
Tourist attractions in Hubei
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