Bayan Har Mountains
| Bayan Har Mountains | ||
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| Highest peak | . ( 5266 m ) | |
| location | Qinghai ( PR China ) | |
| part of | Tibet highlands | |
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| Coordinates | 34 ° 42 ' N , 98 ° 13' E | |
The Bayan Har Shan or Bayankara Ula ( Mongolian Баянхар уул Bayanhar Uul ᠪᠠᠶᠠᠨᠬᠠᠷᠠ
ᠠᠭᠤᠯᠠ; Tibetan བ་ ཡན་ ཧ་ རི Wylie ba yan ha ri ; chin. 巴颜喀拉山 脉; Pinyin: Bāyánkālā shānmài), also Bayan Har Mountains or Bayankala Shan, is a mountain range in the highlands of Tibet far south of the Kunlun Shan and the two lakes Ngoring Tsho and Kyaring Tsho (located south of the Kokonor / Qinghai Lake ).
Within the Qinghai Province , it initially extends for 250 km from northwest to southeast to the northwest of the Chinese province of Sichuan : In Qinghai, the mountains are in the nomadic districts of Madoi (Tibetan Autonomous District (TAB) Golog ), Qumarlêb and Chidu (Tibetan Yushu Autonomous District ), in Sichuan the Sêrxü County (in the Garzê Autonomous District of the Tibetans) is involved. From there, it extends for another 350 km eastwards again to Qinghai (in the Madoi, Darlêg , Baima and Jigzhi counties in the Golog Autonomous District of the Tibetans) and back to Sichuan ( Ngawa County in the eponymous Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous District).
Compared to the surrounding, around 4500 m extending alpine steppes of the Yarmothang , the mostly gently undulating mountains, rising to a maximum of 5266 m , look more like a larger chain of hills than a large mountain range. Since the Bayankara Shan separates the catchment areas of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River , it is of great importance. The Yellow River has its source in the swampy areas at the northwestern foot of the Bayankara Mountains, near the 5214 m high Yagra Dagze peak . Although there are traces of glacier activity in the region, which can be described as inhumane from a climatic point of view, the entire mountain range is not glaciated today.
literature
- Arjen Stroeven et al .: "Paleoglaciology of the Bayan Har Mountain area, eastern Tibetan Plateau", Conference paper, Asian Conference on Permafrost
See also
Web links
- Article Bayan Har Mountains in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)