A bird’s-eye view of the Jinsha Site
1 min readLocation of the Site and Its Environment
Sichuan Province in southwest China consists of two geographical units -the Western Sichuan Tableland and the Sichuan Basin. In the west of the basin is the 10,000-sq km Chengdu Plain, which was formed by the alluvial cones of the Minjiang, Jianjiang, Shiting and Mianyuan rivers. The plain slopes down from no to southeast, with elevations ranging from 400 to 750 m and numerous which is warm and humid and with four distinct asons Hu layang state) escribes the land of Shu (another name seasons river water is diverted to irrigate it, “Yizhou (the name for Chengdu during the Han Dynasty) has tough fortresses and vast fertile land.
Chengdu, a metropolis with a history of 3,000 years and population of 10 million, is located in who left numerous legends and rich cultural heritage behind them.
A bird’s-eye view of the Jinsha Site, now apreserved zone and longitude 1049 east, and merely 5 km from the center of ite is only. The Qingshui River is 1.5 km away from Is through the site. On the south of the Modi was Jinsha age. Before the 1980s the area was covered by large fields sion of the city, it is now occupied by new a, previously a small village unknown to the outsides made in the early 21st century.
