Three Parallel Rivers National Park
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How it came to be
The Three Parallel Rivers lie in the mountains of north-western Yunnan, in the Hengduan range. Here the upper reaches of three great Asian rivers, the Jinsha (Yangtze), the Lancang (Mekong) and the Nujiang (Salween), run roughly parallel from north to south for more than 300 km. The ranges between them carry glaciated peaks over 6,000 m, and the gorges are up to 3,000 m deep.
After this near meeting the rivers split far apart. The Nujiang reaches the Indian Ocean at Mawlamyine in Myanmar, the Lancang the South China Sea in southern Vietnam, and the Jinsha, as the Yangtze, the East China Sea at Shanghai. Yearly rainfall ranges from 4,600 mm in the Dulong valley in the west to 300 mm in the upper Yangtze valleys.
The region is home to Tibetans, Naxi, Lisu, Nu, Bai and Pumi, and to the Derung, the smallest of China's minority groups. The property is made up of 15 protected areas in eight clusters, about 1.7 million ha in all. It was inscribed in 2003 for its range of landforms and its biodiversity.
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