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In 2005, Zhangye Danxia was voted by a panel of reporters from 34 major media outlets as one of the most beautiful Danxia landform areas in China. In 2009, Chinese National Geography magazine chose Zhangye Danxia as one of the "six most beautiful landforms" in China. [2] The area has become a top tourist attraction for Zhangye.
As the landform gets older, valleys widen and one gets isolated towers and ridges. The danxia landform is named after Mount Danxia, one of the most famous examples of the danxia landform. A very peculiar feature of danxia landscape is the development of numerous caves of various sizes and shapes. The caves tend to be shallow and isolated ...
Zhangye Commandery was established by Western Han in 111 BC, with the seat at the site of modern Wuwei, Gansu. Etymology of Zhangye is unclear. A popular theory interprets the name Zhangye as "Extending Arm", excerpted from a phrase "to extend the arm of the country through to the Western Realm" (张国臂掖，以通西域) documented in Han ...
Finally, the area of Danxia was formed. [2] Since six million years ago, the basin of Danxia area has experienced several intermittent rises, which average increase of about one metre (3 ft) per 10,000 years. With the favor of water washing by the river, the mount of Danxia is cut into many layers, and formed the mount of Danxia nowadays. [3]
Pages in category "Danxia landform" ... Zhangye National Geopark This page was last edited on 14 September 2014, at 06:56 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Danxia may refer to: Mount Danxia, scenic mountain in Guangdong, China; Danxia landform, named after the mountain; China Danxia, collective name of six areas of Danxia landform inscribed on the World Heritage Site
Buildings and structures in Zhangye (1 C, 1 P) P. People from Zhangye (3 P) Pages in category "Zhangye" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
The photos on this page don't seem to do the Zhangye justice, at least compared to other photos I've seen online. Maybe the more colorful photos were manipulated, but it might be worth it to try to find some brighter (unaltered) photos for Wikipedia. ~ 2601:441:4400:1740:F1C3:7BF3:AE4D:FF48 ( talk ) 01:26, 10 September 2020 (UTC) [ reply ]