The Bogda Shan ( Mongolian : Богд Уул, Bogd Uul ; simplified Chinese : 博格达山 ; traditional Chinese : 博格達山 ; pinyin : Bógédá shān ) range is part of the Eastern Tian Shan mountains and located in Xinjiang , some 60 km east of Ürümqi . The topography of the area gradually increases from north to south. The elevation is between 1380 and 5445 m, with the largest relative relief up to 4065 m. The highest elevation is Bogda Peak , at 5,445 m.
7-456: Administratively, the range forms the border between Dabancheng District to the south and Fukang City and Jimsar County to the north. In all three units, irrigated agriculture is based on the water flowing in streams that starts in the Bogda Shan. 43°35′N 89°40′E / 43.583°N 89.667°E / 43.583; 89.667 This Xinjiang location article is
14-450: A stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Dabancheng District Dabancheng District ( Chinese : 达坂城区 ; pinyin : Dábǎnchéng Qū ) or Dawan Cheng ( Uyghur : داۋانچىڭ رايونى , romanized : Dawanching Rayoni , Даванчиң Райони ), is one of 7 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Ürümqi , the capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region , Northwest China . Located southeast of
21-469: The Bogda Shan to the northeast. As of July 2015 GoogleEarth appears to show road and rail tunnels and viaducts being built to avoid the pass. Human habitation and irrigated agriculture in this arid area are made possible primarily by streams flowing south from the Bogda Shan range, which is located on the northern border of the district. The water that is not used up for irrigation locally flows into
28-602: The district's several small lakes (Yanhu, Xiao Yanhu and Chaiwopu Lake ) or down the Baichang River into the Toksun County . “It showed me the utter barrenness of the slopes of gravel and decayed rock over which the ascent is made from the Turfān depression to the watershed ; the remarkably low elevation of the latter, which on the plateau of Ta-fan-ch’êng [= Dawan Cheng] scarcely rises above 3,000 feet ; and
35-561: The ease of communication secured by this route between the Turfān basin and Dzungaria. At the Chinese village of Ta-fan-ch’êng close to the watershed irrigation is still required for the fields, and a lively stream coming from the high Bogdo-ula mountains to the north-east serves this purpose. But on the low hills over which Urumchi is approached cultivation depends on rain and snowfall only. This marked change in climatic conditions made its effects strikingly felt when we reached Ta-fan-ch’êng from
42-469: The south-east ; for there can be no doubt that the violent gales from the north-east for which the plateau is notorious, and one of which obliged us to make a day's halt there under rather trying conditions, are directly due to the ‘ aspiration ’ which draws the cold air of Dzungaria through this great gap of the T’ien-shan down into the deep depression of Turfān, where the atmosphere is warmed, even during
49-466: The Ürümqi urban area, it contains an area of 5,042 km (1,947 sq mi). According to the 2002 census, it has a population of 40,000. The district seat of government is the town of the same name (Dabancheng Town). The name means 'Pass City'. Just south of the town is a low pass on the road from Ürümqi southeast to Turfan . It crosses a mountain spur that connects the main Tien Shan with
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