Hoh Xil
UNESCO World Heritage Site | |
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Location | Qinghai |
Criteria | Natural: (vii)(x) |
Reference | 1540 |
Inscription | 2017 (41st Session) |
Area | 3,735,632 ha (9,230,950 acres) |
Buffer zone | 2,290,904 ha (5,660,950 acres) |
Coordinates | 35°22′49″N 92°26′21″E / 35.38028°N 92.43917°E |
Hoh Xil | |||||
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Chinese name | |||||
Mongolian Cyrillic | Хөх шил | ||||
Mongolian script | ᠬᠥᠬᠡ ᠰᠢᠯᠢ | ||||
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Hoh Xil or Kekexili (
Geography
The region covers 83,000 square kilometres at an average elevation of 4,800 metres above sea level, stretches in the east–west direction between the
Geology
Hoh Xil is volcanic. The surrounding Northern Tibet volcanic field contains a number of late-Cenozoic volcanoes. Several Hawaiian-style volcanoes are present in this area. Bamaoqiongzong covers an area of 300 km2 and contains a perfectly preserved edifice NE of the summit and a lava flow that overlies Quaternary lake deposits . The Bamaoqiongzong area contains peralkaline phonolitic and foiditic rocks. Yongbohu contains five dacitic, trachyandesitic and andesitic vents. Qiangbaqian covers a broad area along the southern border of the Kunlun mountain range. A cone in the Kekexili caldera, once thought to be observed in eruption on a satellite photo in 1973, is now considered not to have been historically active.[4][5]Synonyms & Subfeatures
Wildlife
Despite the harsh climate, Hoh Xil is home to more than 230 species of wild animals, 20 of which are under Chinese state protection, including the wild yak, wild donkey, white-lip deer, brown bear and the endangered Tibetan antelope or chiru. The abundant plateau pika, a small burrowing rodent, is the main food of the region's brown bears; the bears also feed on the yak and antelope.[6] The hitherto little-known region, as well as the struggling Tibetan antelope, or chiru, became household names in China upon the release of the film Kekexili: Mountain Patrol in 2004. Zhuonai Lake (卓乃湖) in Hoh Xil is known as a gathering place for the Tibetan antelope.[7]
Transportation
The
See also
References
- ^ "Qinghai Hoh Xil".
- ISBN 0-7923-4098-1
- ^ 可可西里:与天相接的生命守护人 [Hoh Xil: Ecological Preservation Volunteers who Touch the Sky]. zt.gog.cn (in Simplified Chinese). Retrieved 23 April 2018.
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- ^ "Global Volcanism Program | Unnamed".
- ^ "Unnamed". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution.
- ^ Xu Aichun, Jiang Zhigang, Li Chunwang, Guo Jixun, Wu Guosheng, Cai Ping, "Summer Food Habits of Brown Bears in Kekexili Nature Reserve, Qinghai: Tibetan Plateau, China". Ursus, Vol. 17, No. 2 (2006), pp. 132-137
- ^ "探秘可可西里产房 --可可西里".
- ^ "Environmental Protection Along the Qinghai-Tibet Railway". Archived from the original on 2005-06-11. Retrieved 2005-05-05.