Kaiyuan (Honghe)

The city of Kaiyuan ( Chinese  开远市 , Pinyin Kāiyuǎn Shì ) is an independent city in the Honghe Autonomous District of the Hani and Yi in the south of the Chinese province of Yunnan . It has an area of ​​1,946.91 square kilometers and has a population of 260,000 (2004).

Administrative structure

At the community level, the urban district consists of two street districts , two large communities and three communities (one of which is a national community). These are:

• Lebaidao street district乐 百 道 街道
• Road neighborhood Lingquan灵泉街道

• Greater community Xiaolongtan小龙潭镇
• Greater community Zhongheying中和营镇

• Dazhuang Township 大 庄 回族 乡 the Hui
• Yangjie Township 羊 街乡
• Municipality of Beige碑 格 乡

Fossil finds

In the area of ​​the Xiaolongtan coal mine, fossils have been discovered since 1956 that are 10 to 8 million years old and are interpreted as early relatives of the orangutans living today . The fossils were initially assigned to the genus Dryopithecus as Dryopithecus keiyuanensis and later to the genus Ramapithecus ; however, since 1987 they have been listed as an independent genre. The Xiaolongtan finds have since been placed as Lufengpithecus keiyuanensis in the genus Lufengpithecus .

Individual evidence

1. ^ R. Wu: A revision of the classification of the Lufeng great apes. In: Acta Anthrop. Sin. , Vol. 6, 1987, pp. 265-271

Web links

• Info page - Chinese

Coordinates: 23 ° 43 '  N , 103 ° 15'  E