| Zhangjiajie City is located in the north-west of Hunan Province, take up 9,563 square kilometers, possesses of 1.54milliom of population in which 72% people are minorities such as Tujia Nationality, Bai Nationality, Miao Nationality, etc.
Zhangjiajie City is blessed with abundant tourism resources including unique quartz sand hoodoos physiognomy, intact pristine forest ecological environment and complete tourist facilities, so she has been awarded Key Landscape Showplace, Class 4A Scenic Spot as well as Excellent Tourist City in China.
Wulingyuan Landscape Showplace, an area under Zhangjiajie's jurisdiction, includes 3 large scenic spots of Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, Suoxiyu Nature Reserve, and Tianzi Moutain Nature Reserve, which take up 264 square kilometers to encompass towering marvelous peaks, lofty and steep rocks in thousands. She combines peaks, forests, caves, lakes, and falls and gathers wonder, elegance, serenity, wildness and steepness, so she was listed as “Number 1 miracle mountain in the world "and "Original manuscript of Chinese landscape painting". In 1992 ,UNESCO recorded Wulingyuan Landscape Showplace in the "List of world natural heritage" of "World heritage". In 2000 ,Wulingyuan Landscape Showplace and Huanglong Cave were listed as Class 4A Scenic Spot in China, and Zhangjiajie National Forest Park was designated as national geological park.
Within the boarders of Zhangjiajie City ,there are solution caves densely covered, and among them Huanglong Cave and Jiutian Cave are listed as the most spectacular caves. In addition, a number of places of historical interest and scenic beauty, such as Puguang Temple, Wulei Mountain, and Yuhuangdong Rock Cave, as well as former residence of historical celebrities such as Marshal Helong ,South-North Knight-errant Du Xinwu, have become rather fascinating human tourist resources, Moreover, the local simple and unsophisticated conditions and customs of minority nationality as well as Zhangjiajie Hard Breathing Exercise that has shocked the world, were talked about by the tourists from both at home and abroad with great relish. The hot-hearted and hospitable Zhangjiajie people welcome people from all circles of life in the world to enjoy the treasures endowed to the human being by the Grand Nature.
Physical Geography
Hunan times in the north-western city, which is located to your plateau uplift settlement with the Dongting Lake area in the Ministry between N and 109 degrees 40 minutes to 111 degrees 20 minutes, 28 degrees 52 minutes north latitude to 29 degrees 48 minutes between the East to Shimen, Hunan, Bush Yuanling County, Hubei Province in the north Hefeng, Xuanenxian. Longest border city 167 kilometres east-west, north-south maximum width of 96 km. The total area of 9653 square kilometers, accounting for 4.5% of the province's area.
City Construction sport complex topography, mainly in mountainous regions, karst, hills, Post and plain, mountainous area 76% of the total area, most of which are quartz stones Fenglin geomorphological features for the World rare. Northwest high urban terrain, to the southeast along Fengshui's favor. Since Guizhou agent Wulingshanmo branch, the city was divided into three times throughout the city-cordillera. City of mountains partly overlap, surface fluctuations, the highest altitude 1890.4 metres, 75 metres above the lowest point.
Mainly in mountainous terrain throughout the city, high terrain northwest along Fengshui's preferences, along Fengshui's Central Taiwan and mainland North East to provide a low branches would fall to the southern mountains. Wulingshanmo times since Guizhou agent branches into the city, and three hours. North sticks by the administration forms Hubei Lai Feng Shan Shan County calendar, Ying Shan, Qinglongshan; Medium-counts along the north have Fengshui's Star Hill, red Travelers, none Hill, Father Hill, Mao spent sector. Southern Branch in Fengshui's, the river between, Qixingshan, Shun Shan, Tianmenshan, extended into large car Cili County, the days are hill. Three are in the East Dongting Lake alluvial plain and disappeared.
Times their exceptional tourist resources world. To the first state-level forest park and Tianzishan times, the two areas Suoxiyu composition includes scenic areas covering 369 square kilometers in the region in the world rare quartz stones Fenglin Valley landscape as the mainstay, the show sets Guilin, Huangshan is strange, Huashan of insurance, Taishan mountain - with the integration of the Tibetan economy, bridges, holes, lakes, waterfall at all. "expansion bonsai, and narrowing the mountains" laudatory name.
Sport is the repository of biological resources in the region have xylophyte 106 Section 320 is 850 species, 146 species of vertebrates. National protection of plant species of which 56, 40 state-level protection animal species. There are rare species of Ginkgo, Gong Tong, yew, cherry, etc.; Expensive medicine is ganoderma lucidum, bladder, Black, the bark of eucommia; Rare animals have jurisdiction, Dujiashou, Su doors antelope, tiger, clouded leopard, monkeys, Lingmao.
Sport city rich in forest resources, the city has an area of 1012 acres of forest land, accounting for 71%. Forest cover of 64.61%, ranking among the first. Town implementation of the "beautification, presence, purification" works with green 1.55 square metres per capita, is the ideal eco-tourism zone, international vacation areas.
Sport in North China latitudes, a prototype of subtropical hill sexual humid monsoon climate-ray hot adequate rainfall, frost-free period long cold period is short, with four seasons, the calendar year average duration, temperature and precipitation were 1440 hours, 16 degrees, and 14 mm and the average frost-free period in the calendar year 216 days to 269 days. This climate is conducive to agriculture, forestry, livestock, the Deputy, fisheries development in a comprehensive way. But the terrain, topography and other factors, of the complex and changeable climate, drought floods, strong winds hail and other natural disasters are also fairly frequent.
Spring (3/5 month) temperatures : 5.8 degrees, 11.4 degrees and 16.1 degrees, such as spring pretty and flirtatious laugh-fed flowers, singing
Summer (5/8 month) temperature : 19.7 degrees, 23.3 degrees and 22.2 degrees and the summer house as Ti-summer, the drifting
Fall (9/12 month) temperature : 17.9 degrees, 13.9 degrees, 8.7 degrees and cloudless autumn luminous - reward fruit, uprise
Winter (12/2 month) temperatures : 3.4 degrees, 0.7 degrees, 1.3 degrees Sujie If winter sleep-feet, found the U.S.
Urban altitude 183 metres times, the average altitude of 1,000 metres node, because the difference between day and night temperatures can reach 10 degrees |
