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Shanxi, Shaanxi and the Grand Canyon

Yellow River Grand Canyon, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia from North Tuoketuo, Hejin Yumenkou the south, a total length of 725 km, along a total of 27 cities and counties, an area of 111,600 square kilometers.

China on a map can see that the Yellow River in Shanxi, Shaanxi and the Grand Canyon Tuoketuo County town of mouth formed a "few" shaped bend of the right half, where the Yellow River and the racing current, the scenery spectacular.

Yellow River out of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the Ridge Chuanshan, nine of 18 bends, the ups and down, to Taohuayu Zhengzhou, the face of sudden change, by ditching chisel Valley to desilting from the sea, it became this Taohuayu The world's largest land-based Delta's peak, and the Yellow River valley is located in Taohuayu above.



Heyuan to the Yellow River in Inner Mongolia Tuoketuo County town of upstream river estuary, and the bottom of the middle reaches of the Yumenkou to Taohuayu, although there are such as Longyangxia, Shek Kip plot, Liujiaxia, red gorge, Qingtongxia, Sanmen Gorge and so on well-known, But they are separated by a series of Kuangu Basin. Only the town to the mouth of Shanxi, Inner Mongolia Yumenkou, constitutes the main stream of the Yellow River, the longest consecutive Grand Canyon - Shanxi, Shaanxi and the Grand Canyon. East and West Loop area was in the direction of the Yellow River, for paragraph onto north-south, by relying on the Ordos Plateau southward trend, with Luliang left, right Jin in northern Shaanxi, deep in the Loess Plateau, are in a deep valley 100 meters above the bottom elevation Gradually from 1000 meters to 400 below the riverbed as the narrowest Hukou, only 30 to 50 meters.

As Nishajuxia Loess Qiu He, Shanxi, Shaanxi and the Grand Canyon to reach the sand of the Yellow River has 56% of the total, despite its drainage area and only 15 percent of the Yellow River. It can be said that the real "yellow" He is here achievements, Shenjiantengjiao, Zhuolang emptying, the typical style of the Yellow River valley to make this collection, which again Yumenkou over the most spectacular goal Gap. Li said that "summary to the Yellow River to the West Kunlun Mountains, the roar Miles inconsistent with the goal", just point out in Shanxi, Shaanxi and the Grand Canyon, this was the climax in the final.

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