Mountain Ranges
Mountains frame the Sichuan Basin on all sides:
- the Qionglai Range in the west
- the Longmen Mountains in the northwest
- the Daba in the northeast.
The Yangtze River, flowing from the Sichuan Basin into the eastern China, passes through the Three Gorges in the Wu Mountains.
Read more about this topic: Sichuan Basin
Famous quotes containing the word mountain:
“Again, he felt a crude ecstasy. He could not have given the reason, but the mountain tormented him, beckoned him, held an answer to something he wanted. It was so pure, so austere.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)