Mount Siguniang

Mount Siguniang
རི་བོ་སྐུ་བླ་
From left to right: Yaomei Feng, Sanguniang Feng, Erguniang Feng and Daguniang Feng.
Highest point
Elevation6,250 m (20,510 ft)[1]
Prominence2,571 m (8,435 ft)[2]
ListingUltra
Coordinates31°06′24″N 102°54′06″E / 31.10667°N 102.90167°E / 31.10667; 102.90167[2]
Geography
Mount Siguniang is located in Sichuan
Mount Siguniang
Mount Siguniang
Location in Sichuan
LocationNgawa Prefecture, Sichuan, China
Parent rangeQionglai Mountains
Climbing
First ascent1981
Easiest routesnow/ice/glacier climb

Mount Siguniang (Chinese: 四姑娘山; pinyin: Sìgūniang Shān; lit. 'Mountain of the Four Maidens'), or Mount Skubla (Tibetan: རི་བོ་སྐུ་བླ་[3], Wylie: ri bo sku bla, lit. 'Mountain of the tutelary deity'[4]) is the highest mountain of Qionglai Mountains in Western China. It is located in the bordering area of Siguniangshan Town, Xiaojin County and Wenchuan County in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province.

Mount Siguniang is renowned for its beauty. Mount Siguniang National Park was identified as a UNESCO Heritage Site as part of Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries in 2006. The park comprises Mount Siguniang and the surrounding three valleys, namely Changping Valley (长坪沟), Haizi Valley (海子沟) and Shuangqiao Valley (双桥沟), covering an area of 2,000sq km.[5]

  1. ^ "Yaomei Feng, China". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
  2. ^ a b "China III - Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces". Peaklist.org. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
  3. ^ This Tibetan alphabet shown on the Ticket
  4. ^ "墨尔多神山传说". 甘孜藏族自治州人民政府 (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 22 April 2021. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  5. ^ china.org.cn