Liancheng National Nature Reserve is located in
Gansu Province
Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province.
The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibet ...
in the
Yellow River
The Yellow River or Huang He (Chinese: , Mandarin: ''Huáng hé'' ) is the second-longest river in China, after the Yangtze River, and the sixth-longest river system in the world at the estimated length of . Originating in the Bayan Ha ...
Basin. It consists of , of which is core area, is buffer area, and the remaining is experimental area mainly targeted for the protection of the
spruce
A spruce is a tree of the genus ''Picea'' (), a genus of about 35 species of coniferous evergreen trees in the family Pinaceae, found in the northern temperate and boreal (taiga) regions of the Earth. ''Picea'' is the sole genus in the subfam ...
ecosystem, especially ''
Picea wilsonii
''Picea wilsonii'' is a species of conifer in the family Pinaceae
The Pinaceae, or pine family, are conifer trees or shrubs, including many of the well-known conifers of commercial importance such as cedars, firs, hemlocks, larches, pines a ...
''.
The reserve is located approximately between 36°33' and 36°48' North latitude, and between 102°36' and 102°55' East longitude.
The climate is temperate continental monsoon, the annual average rainfall is 419 cm per square meter.
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References
关于发布河北柳江盆地地质遗迹等17处新建国家级自然保护区面积、范围及功能分区等有关事项的通知("Notice of the scope and function of the 17 new state-level nature reserve areas, such as the Liujiang River Basin Geologic Relic National Nature Reserve in Hebei" Central Letter 314 (2005), State Environmental Protection Administration) in Chinese
Geography of Gansu
Nature reserves in China
Tourist attractions in Gansu
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