1. Yarlung Tsangpo River
With water reserves, The Yarlung Tsangpo River stands rank second in China. It originates from the middle section of the northern slope of the Himalaya Mountain.
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2. Tiger Leaping Gorge (Hutiaoxia Gorge)
Tiger Leaping Gorge just on the section of the Jinsha River between the Haba Snow Mountains and the Jade Dragon Snow Mountains.The River situated in the southeast of Zhongdian County and the north of Lijiang City. The great gorge inspires awe and nobility of spirit.
3. Yangtze River
The Yangtze River is the largest and longest river in China, and the third-longest in the world. The Yangtze River lies to the west of Geladandong Mountain.
4. Great Nujiang Canyons
The Great Nujiang Canyons is a ”longitudinal” valley, lying parallel with the run of mountain ranges that give rise to the natural wonder of the Three Parallel Rivers.
5. Lancang Canyon
The river surface in the canyon is 2,006 meters above sea level. The Lancang Canyon is located in Diqing County, stretching from Foshan Township to Yanmen Township, over 100 kilometers to the south, and has the largest elevation difference in Yunnan.
6. Tailuge
The Central Mountain Range lies mostly in the eastern part, rather gentle on their western face with a wide plain in front, while their eastern face is mostly sheer cliffs rising sharply from the western shore of the Pacific Ocean.
7. Yellow River flows through mountains
Most of the Yellow River gorges occur along Taohuayu. The Yellow River flows through mountains, making many twists and turns, falls and continues its course until reaches Taohuayu in Zhengzhou City.
8. Jinkou Gorge that the Dadu River gorge
The Dadu River originates in the Bayan Har Mountain where Sichuan and Qinghai province meet. The river rushes through high mountains and lofty ridges in the eastern part of the Hengduan Mountains.There are gorges with splendid scenery all the way, but it is in the Jinkou Gorge that the Dadu River gorge landscape reaches its climax.
9. Taihang Mountains
The gorge group of the southern Taihang Mountains located between the Huguan Pass and Pingshun of Shanxi Province and Lenzhou and Huixian of Henan Province, with the White Defile as the mainstream, is typical of the Taihang Gorge system. The height of those ridges is between 1,000 and 2,000 meters.
10. Kuqa (or Kuche) Gorge
The Kuqa Gorge is located in the southern part of the Tianshan Mountains. The Kuqa River is a tributary of the Tarim River, and local Uygur people call its valley ”Kizilia” which means ”red cliffs”. A typical earth-rift ravine, the gorge extends more than five kilometers in total, with a main valley and seven branch valleys.
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