Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 8 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5117-4429-2
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon (Chinese: ???????; pinyin: Yaluzangbu Daxiagu) or simply the Tsangpo Canyon or Tsangpo Gorge, along the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet, China, is regarded by some as the deepest canyon in the world, and is slightly longer than the Grand Canyon, making it one of the world's largest. The Yarlung Tsangpo River, usually just called "Zangbo" (also spelled "Tsangpo", meaning "purifier"), originates from Mount Kailash and running east for about 1700 km drains a northern section of the Himalayas before its enters the gorge near downstream of Pei, Tibet near the settlement of Zhibe. The canyon has a length of about 150 miles (240 km) as the gorge bends around Mount Namcha Barwa (7782 m) and cuts its way through the eastern Himalayan range. Its waters drop from about 2,900 m near Pei to about 1,500 m at the end of the Upper Gorge where the Po Tsangpo River enters. The river continues through the Lower Gorge to the...
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