Xingwen stone sea

Xingwen stone sea, the first World Geopark, national scenic spot and national AAAA tourist area in Sichuan Province, is located in Yibin City, Sichuan Province, the first city of the Yangtze River and the hometown of Wuliangye. It is adjacent to the bamboo sea in southern Sichuan, with a total area of 156 square kilometers. The geological changes of 500 million years have given birth to the majestic surface stone sea, crisscross underground caves and world-class huge Tiankeng of Xingwen stone sea.

Night tour of the stone sea is a big landscape created by the brand-new packaging of the scenic spot. On holidays and weekends, when the night falls, thousands of colored lights are in full bloom, which makes the whole surface of the stone sea colorful and charming, just like the fairyland in the world and the fairy tale world, which can be called "the brightest in Southwest China".

The surface stone sea covers an area of 14 square kilometers, concentrating various forms of karst. There are many strange peaks, steep rocks, overlapping peaks and clear water ripples. The whole country reflects the basic characteristics of karst development process under specific physical geography and geological conditions in southern Sichuan. There are mainly eight scenic spots: Xieyuan, qinvfeng, Shihai maze, leopard mountain, Maogou mountain, fossil labyrinth and bozhai, Miaozhai. Each scene has different landscapes and forms.

Shihai ancient Miao village is an important place for festivals, sacrifices and major activities of the Miao people in Xingwen. Stepping on mountains, eating new food and some major gathering activities are held here. The simple and charming Miao culture of marriage, singing and dancing, customs, etiquette, costumes, diet, etc. are integrated here. It is an excellent place for tourists to understand and explore Miao culture.

Xingwen stone sea

Xingwen stone sea is located in Xingwen County, Yibin City, Sichuan Province, in the transition zone between Sichuan Basin and Yunnan Guizhou Plateau, with a total area of about 156 square kilometers. It is a World Geopark and a national scenic spot. Its geological relics mainly include: Permian geological section, surface karst topography, Tiankeng, karst cave, cave deposit, waterfall, karst Canyon, paleontological fossil, tempestite deposit, etc. among them, Tiankeng is the most famous one, which is the earliest place to discover and study Tiankeng in China.

History of scenic spots

Xingwen Shihai (formerly known as shihaidong township) was officially opened to the outside world on May 1, 1980;

In 1986, it became the first batch of provincial scenic spots;

It was approved as a national key scenic spot by the State Council on May 17, 2002;

It was approved as a national geopark by the Ministry of land and resources on January 19, 2004;

On February 11, 2005, UNESCO held the Second World Geopark expert review conference in Paris, France. By 7 votes, it officially became the second batch of world geoparks.

natural resources

plant resources

There are 90 species belonging to 82 genera and 48 families in Xingwen Shihai, among which Tiankeng is the most abundant (75 species), three karst depressions are 52 species, and houhoutan is the least (12 species).

The vegetation type of Xingwen Shihai World Geopark is subtropical evergreen coniferous forest, with Phyllostachys pubescens, Pinus koraiensis, Alsophila spinulosa and mountain grass shrub as typical, mainly including Compositae, oxalaceae, Labiatae, Rosaceae, Gramineae and other plants, and the main species are bitter (< iaartemisia codonocephala < / Ivar. < imaireana < / I), Oxalis corniculata (< ioxalis corniculata < / I), wormwood (< iaartemisia) Argyi, Prunella vulgaris, apilea notata, Ranunculus japonicus, Erigeron annuus, Phytolacca acinosa, etc.

geographical environment

Location context

Xingwen Shihai World Geopark is located in Xingwen County, southern Sichuan Province. Its geographical coordinates are 105 ° 0 ′ 56 ″ - 105 ° 09 ′ 46 ″ E and 28 ° 08 ′ 54 ″ - 28 ° 20 ′ 29 ″ n. It is located in the mountainous area of southern Sichuan Basin. It is Xianfeng mountain and Chuanyun mountain at the northern end of Wumeng Mountain. It is a transitional zone between the mountainous area in southern Sichuan Basin and Yunnan Guizhou Plateau. The scenic spot is connected to Luzhou in the East, Yibin in the west, and the bamboo sea in southern Sichuan. It is one of the areas with the most perfect karst landform in China.

It is connected with Gongxian County, Changning County, Jiang'an County, Xuyong County of Luzhou City, Naxi district and Weixin County of Yunnan Province, with convenient transportation conditions. The county is equidistant from Yibin City and Luzhou city.

Because the county stone forest, cave throughout the 16 townships, it has "shihaidong township" reputation.

topographic features

Xingwen Shihai Geopark is a karst landform with middle and low mountains and narrow valleys, and the slope of most mountains is above 60 degrees. In the park, there are a series of one-sided mountains and ringed mountains, with many peaks, deep rivers and large undulating terrain. The terrain is low in the north and high in the south, with an altitude of 429-1795m.

The geotectonic location of the park is at the intersection of the East-West structural system and the North-South structural system in the South Sichuan fold belt of Yangzi paraplatform. The strata are characterized by Paleozoic marine carbonate sedimentary rocks such as Cambrian, Ordovician, Permian and Silurian book leaf marl. The NW structural system dominated by Changning anticline is developed, and folds and faults are developed. The main types of soil in the park are calcareous soil, yellow soil and purple soil. Xingwen Shihai is located in the transition zone between Sichuan Basin and Yunnan Guizhou Plateau, which belongs to the East-West structural system of South Sichuan fold belt.

The topography of the whole Xingwen County is hilly and gully area in the north, low mountain and valley area in the middle, and medium mountain and narrow valley landform in the south.

hydrographic features

There are mainly Yanjiang River, Shunhe River, Mulang River, longtangou River and Bolu River in the park, which converge into the Ancient Song River and flow into the Yangtze River from south to North at Naxi.

Climate type

Xingwen Shihai is affected by the alternating continental air mass all the year round. It has a humid monsoon climate in the middle subtropical zone. The climate is mild, the rainfall is abundant, the frost free period is long, the four seasons are distinct, and the rain and heat are in the same season. It provides a good climate condition for the development of karst landform in the Geopark.

The area has a subtropical humid climate with mild climate, abundant rainfall, long frost free period, four distinct seasons and hot rain in the same season.

The average annual temperature is 17.1 ℃～ 17.5 ℃, the hottest month is July with an average temperature of 26.9 ℃, and the coldest month is January with an average temperature of 7.2 ℃.

The average annual precipitation is 1183.08mm, the average annual relative humidity is 88%, the average annual sunshine is 1056 hours, and the average annual frost days is 4.2 days.

Significance of scientific research

The world-class large-scale funnel, a large number of inflow caves, complete karst basin and excellent karst development conditions constitute the unique "Xingwen style" karst landform. As early as the 1980s, Xingwen karst has become a model of karst geology research in Sichuan and even in China. Together with Lunan Stone Forest in Yunnan and karst peak cluster in Guilin, Guangxi, Xingwen karst is a typical representative of three types of karst in Western China. Therefore, Xingwen karst geological resources have important scientific value and international comparative significance.

Scenic spots

Main scenic spots

The Geopark consists of four parks; xiaoyanwan Geopark, a cave group composed of more than 200 large and small karst caves represented by Tianquan cave; Bowang Mountain Park, famous for its natural ecology and gathering many kinds of geological relic landscapes, such as Canyon, waterfall, lake, karst cave, ancient Bo people site; formed in the Ordovician period 490 million years ago, it is accompanied by ancient stone forest, Millennium ginkgo, karst cave group and green bamboo forest sea The stone forest of Tai'an and the LingXiao City Park of Lingxiao Bo people ruins are covered by Alsophila spinulosa trees.

Main attractions

Evaluation of scenic spots

When visitors enter the Xingwen stone sea, it's like entering the large exhibition hall of contemporary world sculpture masters. There are thousands of giant sculptures with different ingenuity, some of them are Xiao Ren, some of them are Xiao Wu.

There are 360 scenes, such as "flock of sheep to the mountain", "golden turtle playing with the bear", "husband and wife peak", "fairy peak", "toad wants to eat swan meat", "China picture"... And so on.

Especially when the sheep go up the mountain, the color of the stone bud is white, just like a sheep. Its posture is either walking or standing, or squatting or lying. Some of them seem to be eating grass, some of them seem to be listening attentively, and there are two lambs who seem to be lying on the ewe with their front feet. Their shape and posture are really clever and interesting, The sheep seem to move when their heads are shaking up and down. In spring and summer, when the grass is all around, the landscape will be more delicious.

In the special structure and rain conditions, sometimes up to tens of meters of stone buds can be formed. From a distance, it looks like a row of surging waves, undulating like a solidified wave, which makes tourists dare not live in it and fear that the rough waves will beat them.

On the east side of the scenic spot, there is a huge Tiankeng, which is geologically called a funnel. It is 650m long from east to west, 490m wide, 550m in diameter and 208m high. It is oval in shape. It is like a chopping axe. It is surrounded by cliffs on all sides. At the bottom, it is a collapsed and loose accumulation landform. The whole shape is like a funnel

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