Sichuan Basin - Mountain Ranges

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.

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