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At the southern feet of the high an precipitous
Ailao an Liushao Mountains, there extends a vast stretch of
beautiful richly endowed and mystical land. This is the Honghe
(Red River) Autonomous Prefecture of Hani an Yi Nationalities,
much alike a piece of green precious stone inlaid at the
southernmost end of China.
The Honghe River flows from the west to the east
across the prefecture. Found in this area are dense tropical rain
forests like many green peaks rising one higher than another,
immense variety of karst landforms, many deep mirror-like plateau
lakes, magnificent views of seas of clouds in the valleys and
ravines, tiers upon tiers of terraced fields which reach to the
sky, and rich rare-metal resources renown home and abroad.
Honghe Hani & Yi Autonomous Prefecture, founded on
Novermber 18th,1957 consists of the original Mengzi prefecture,
honghe Hani & Yi Prefecture and Gejiu, a city under provincial
jurisdiction. It was named after the Honghe river which flows
across its cities and counties.
Honghe Prefecture is located in south of Yunnan
province with a borderline of 848 kilometers. it borders with 6
counties, two provinces and Republic Vietnam.There are two
first-grade trading ports of the State, namely Hekou and Jinshuihe.
It covers an area of 32931 square kilometers and administrates two
cities, namely Gejiu and Kaiyuan,11 counties amely Mengzi,
Jianshui, Shiping, Mile, Luxi, Pingbian, Hekou, Jinping, Yuanyang,
Honghe and Luchun.
Besides Han nationalities there are 9 other ethnic
minorities .i.e. Hani, YI, Miao, Dai, Zhuang, Yao, Hui, Lahu and
Buyi, that dwell in the prefecture. It is the main are in which
Hani and Yi as well as Hui minorities live.
Honghe Hani & Yi Autonomous Prefecture is situated
in the region of plateau monsoon with low latitude and with the
Tropic of Cancer crossing through its middle continent.
Topographically it has various types of topography ranging from
high mountains with the altitude of 3074.7 meters to river valleys
of 76.4 meters. Vertically tropical and subtropical climates are
dominate with dry and wet seasons, which make the weather neither
very hot in summer nor cold in winter. Therefore all four seasons
are like spring. The climate may change dramatically at different
altitudes .Thus it is said "there are four seasons in a mountain
but the climate is different within 5 kilometers".
There are plenty of natural resources in Honghe
prefecture, geographical superiority, and wonderful land with
development possibilities.
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