Shennongjia
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UNESCO world heritage 
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 People's Republic of China
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| Type: | nature |
| Criteria : | (ix) (x) |
| Surface: | 73318 ha |
| Buffer zone: | 41,536 ha |
| Reference No .: | 1509 |
| UNESCO region : | Asia and Pacific |
| History of enrollment | |
| Enrollment: | 2016 ( session 40 ) |
Shennongjia (神农架 林区Shénnóngjià línqū ) is a forest area in the northwest of the Chinese province of Hubei . The forest area is an administrative unit at the county level that reports directly to the provincial government. Shennongjia has an area of 3,253 km² and approx. 78,950 inhabitants (end of 2005). The population consists of 95% Han , 4.5% Tujia and 0.5% Zhuang , Miao , Hui and others. Shennongjia lies on the border between Hubei and the government city of Chongqing ; to the west it borders on the Wushan and Wuxi districts . Shennongjia is bordered to the north by Zhushan and Fang Counties in Shiyan City , to the east by Baokang County in Xiangyang City, and to the south by Xingshan Counties ( Yichang City ) and Badong ( Enshi Autonomous District ).
history
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The forest area was established in 1970 by separating areas from Fang, Xingshan and Badong counties and merging them into Shennongjia. The name goes back to the numerous legends in which it is said that Shennong , one of the Three Exalted , showed himself again and again at this place and collected medicinal herbs for his pharmacological experiments on himself .
geography
Shennongjia is a mountain and forest area, which is divided by several mountain ranges, u. a. the Qinling , Wudang , Wu-Shan , Jingshan and Shennongjia Mountains (神农架 山脉) are traversed. The latter form the eastern foothills of the Daba Mountains. 85% of the area of Shennongjia are mountains and mountains, 69.5% are covered by forest. The highest point is Shennong Ding Mountain at 3105.4 m , the lowest point is on the Shizhu He (石柱 河) River at 398 m . A total of 84% of Shennongjia's area is at altitudes above 1200 m; six mountains have peaks over 3000 m, the Small Shennongjia (小 神农架), the Great Shennongjia (大 神农架), the Shennong Ding (神农 顶), the Jinhou Ling (金猴 岭), the Shanmu Jian (杉木 尖) and the Da Wokeng (大 窝 坑). The Shennong Xi rises at the Great and Small Shennongjia and flows into the Yangtze River after 60 km in the Enshi Autonomous District .
Administrative structure
Originally, Shennongjia consisted of 21 parishes and large parishes at the parish level. After the administrative reform of December 31, 2004, it is now made up of four large municipalities , three municipalities and one nationality municipality . These are:
- Greater community Songbai (松柏镇), 328 km², 26,750 inhabitants, the capital, the seat of woodland government;
- Large community Yangri (阳 日), 253 km², 10,900 inhabitants;
- Greater community Hongping (红坪镇), 765 sq km, 6,750 inhabitants;
- Large community Muyu (木鱼 镇), 451 km², 11,600 inhabitants;
- Xinhua Township (新华 乡), 276 km², 3,950 inhabitants;
- Songluo municipality (宋 洛 乡), 629 km², 7,800 inhabitants;
- Jiuhu Township (九 湖乡), 339 km², 4,750 inhabitants;
- Community Xiaguping the Tujia (下谷平土家族乡), 212 sq km, 6,450 inhabitants;
Ethnic classification of Shennongjia's population (2000)
In the 2000 census, Shennongjia had 78,242 residents.
| Name of the people | Residents | proportion of |
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| Han | 73,356 | 93.76% |
| Tujia | 4,758 | 6.08% |
| Hui | 103 | 0.13% |
| Others | 25th | 0.03% |
"Wild People"
Stories, legends and (supposed) eyewitness accounts of encounters with anthropomorphic beings, the so-called Yeren (野人) (Chinese for " wild man "), have been known from Shennongjia for centuries and again and again today . The lore complex is largely similar to the accounts of snowmen from Tibet . So it is not surprising that Shennongjia is now also a "place of pilgrimage" for cryptozoologists from China and z. Some of it has also come from abroad.
World natural heritage
Map with all coordinates of the world heritage areas: OSM
Two areas of the Shennongjia forest area, Shennongding and Laojunshan, were registered as natural heritage sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2016 based on a resolution of the 40th session of the World Heritage Committee. The entry was made on the basis of criteria (ii) and (iv).
The World Heritage site consists of two separate areas with a total area of 73,318 ha , which are surrounded by a common buffer zone with an area of 41,536 ha. The larger, western part of Shennongding / Badong ( Lage ) has an area of 62,851 ha, the smaller, eastern Laojunshan ( Lage ) area of 10,467 ha.
The protected area includes the largest primary forests that remain in central China, and provides a habitat for many rare species such as the Chinese giant salamander ( Andrias davidianus ), the Golden Monkey ( Rhinopithecus roxellana ), the clouded leopard ( Neofelis nebulosa ), the leopard (Panthera pardus) and the Asiatic black bear ( Ursus thibetanus ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Decision: 40 COM 8B.7. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed August 8, 2017 .
- ↑ a b c Hubei Shennongjia. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed August 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Hubei Shennongjia. Maps. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed August 8, 2017 .
Since Qaidam | Huzhong | Jagdaqi | Lenghu | Liuzhi | Mangnai | Shennongjia | Songling | Xinlin
Heritage: Great Wall of China (1987) | Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing ( Forbidden City ) and Shenyang (1987) | Mogao Grottoes (1987) | Qin Shihuangdis Mausoleum (1987) | Peking man's site in Zhoukoudian (1987) | Summer Residence and Eight Outer Temples near Chengde (1994) | Confucius Temple, Cemetery and Residence of the Kong Family in Qufu (1994) | Daoist shrines in the mountains of Wudang (1994) | Potala Palace (1994), Jokhang Temple (2000) and Norbulingka Palace (2001) | Lu Shan National Park (1996) | Lijiang Old Town (1997) | Old City of Pingyao (1997) | Classical Gardens of Suzhou (1997) | Yiheyuan Summer Palace (1998) | Temple of Heaven with imperial sacrificial altar in Beijing (1998) | Rock sculptures by Also (1999) | Mount Qingcheng Mountains and the Dujiangyan Irrigation System (2000) | Xidi and Hongcun Villages (2000) | Longmen Grottoes (2000) | Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (2000) | Yungang Grottoes (2001) | Capitals and Tombs of the Ancient Kingdom of Koguryo (2004) | Historic Center of Macau (2005) | Yinxu (2006) | Diaolou towers and villages in Kaiping (2007) | Tulou loam buildings in Fujian (2008) | Wutai Shan (2009) | Historical Monuments of Dengfeng (2010) | Cultural Landscape West Lake near Hangzhou (2011) | Xanadu Site (2012) | Hani rice terraces in Yunnan (2013) | Silk Roads: The Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor Road Network (2014) | Kaiserkanal (2014) | Tusi sites (2015) | Petroglyphs at Huashan and the Zuo Jiang River (2016) | Kulangsu: a Historic International Settlement (2017) | Liangzhu City Archaeological Ruins (2019)
Natural heritage: Jiuzhaigou Valley Landscape Park (1992) | Lime sinter terrace landscape Huanglong (1992) | Wulingyuan Landscape Park (1992) | Protection zones of the three parallel rivers of Yunnan (2003) | Sichuan Panda Nature Reserve (2006) | Karst landscapes in southern China (2007, 2014) | Sanqing Shan National Park (2008) | Danxia Shan at Shaoguan (2010) | Chengjiang Fossil Site (2012) | Tian Shan Mountains in Xinjiang (2013) | Shennongjia Forest Area (2016) | Qinghai Hoh Xil (2017) | Migratory bird sanctuaries along the coast of the Yellow Sea - Gulf of Bohai (Phase I) (2019)
Cultural / Natural Heritage: Tai Shan Mountain Region (1987) | Huang Shan Mountains (1990) | Mountain landscape of Emei Shan and Leshan Big Buddha (1996) | Wuyi Mountains (1999) | Fanjingshan (2018)
Coordinates: 31 ° 35 ' N , 110 ° 30' E