Wangwushan-Daimeishan UNESCO Global Geopark is located in Jiyuan City and
Xin’an County at the northwest part of Henan Province with an area of 986km2 and
became a member of the Global Geoparks Network in 2006.
It is a comprehensive geopark, features the geoheritages as geological
section, landform landscape and paleontology fossils, shining with animal, plant
resources, and historical culture: The system of Tiantan Mountain geological
structure section reflects the geological evolutionary history since 2.5Ga,
Xiaogoubei -Yinhe Valley show the charm of paleo volcano 1.7Ga ago ; Balixia
Valley on the Yellow River is the key point during the Running through of the
Yellow River ; The group of red stone valleys in Daimeishan can be said to be
the gallery of mountains and waterscape, as is also the natural museum of ripple
marks and mud cracks; Mammal-Iike fossil in Late Paleozoic and trace fossil in
Mesozoic around Fengmenkou area have the significance of global correlation.
More than 1000 kinds of plants live in the geopark, known as the “gene base
of seed plants in North China” live in the geopark. The charmingly naive Taihang
Macaque is the spirit in the mountain; the sprite of Yugong moving mountains
constitutes valuable spiritual wealth, and forms the unyielding national soul of
China.


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