Mount Zheduo (Chinese: 折多山, Standard Tibetan: རྒྱུ་ལ་ཁ, romanized: rgyu la kha) belongs to the remnants of the Gongga Mountain in the middle of the Daxue Mountains, towering over the western section of the Sichuan Basin.[1] Mount Zheduo is the watershed between the Dadu River and the Yalong River, and is also the dividing line between Han and Tibetan culture.
| Mount Zheduo 折多山 | |
|---|---|
 Zheduo Pass | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 4,962 m (16,280 ft) |
| Prominence | 1,800 m (5,900 ft) |
| Coordinates | 30°06′09″N 101°48′48″E / 30.10250°N 101.81333°E |
| Naming | |
| Native name | རྒྱུ་ལ་ཁ (Standard Tibetan) |
| Geography | |
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To the west of the Mount Zheduo is the traditional Kham Tibetan area. The Zheduo Pass (Standard Tibetan: རྒྱུ་ལ་རི་བོའི, romanized: rgyu la ri wo) that National Highway 318 needs to cross is located at an altitude of 4,298 m (14,101 ft) above sea level; it is the first mountain pass on the road that needs to be crossed over 4,000 meters,[2] hence the title "The First Pass of Kham".
References
edit- ^ "རྒྱུ་ལ་ཁ". 藏文地名词典. 西藏在线. 2014-02-12.
- ^ 康定县志编纂委员会 (1995). 康定县志. 四川辞书出版社. ISBN 7-80543-501-4 – via 四川省情网.
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