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Yunnan pictures

All images are the property of Rhett A. Butler / mongabay.com, copyright 2006. Contact me regarding use and reproduction.

Yunnan, the southwestern-most province of China, has the highest biodiversity in the country. Yunnan is drained by six major river systems -- including the Yangtze, Pearl, Mekong, Red (Yuan), Salween, and Irrawaddy -- and ranges in elevation from 76 m (250 feet) to the 6,740-meter (21,905-foot) high Kawagebo Peak. Yunnan is also home to 25 of China's ethnic minorities.

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15 Photos

Tibetan woman with a pink headscarf



Man in a rice field



The muddy upper Yangtze in northwestern Yunnan as seen from above



Tibetan woman in the Deqin market



Red grassland



Flooded grassland in Yunnan



Terraced rice fields in NW Yunnan



Deep brick red color of the upper Mekong. This section will be flooded by a dam



Mekong in the mountains of southeastern Tibet / northwestern Yunnan



Rice fields in a valley in Tibetan Yunnan



Giant prayer wheel in Zhongdian



Terraced rice paddies in Yunnan



Tibetan cowboy



Vegetables at the market in Deqin



Tibetan woman leading a cow across a pasture








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