Sichuan and Yunnan Ultra-Prominences

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Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces

36 Mountain Summits with Prominence of 1,500 meters or greater

According to our research, the People's Republic of China has 178 ultra-prominent summits. This is equal to almost 12% of the world's total, and ranks China as #1 in this category. 33 of these summits appear to be directly on the border with a neighboring country: Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, North Korea, or Vietnam.

In order to best display the data, we are presenting the mountains of China on four lists:

China I - Tibet (Xizang)
China II - Sinkiang (Xinjiang)
China III - Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces
China IV - Central and Eastern China, including Taiwan and Korea

Additionally, there is a high degree of overlap between the Tibet and Sinkiang lists and the High Asia I (Karakoram) and High Asia II (Central Himalaya) lists.

It is not our intention to make misleading statements about the proper borders in areas disputed between China, India, Pakistan and Bhutan. We apologize if for any errors of international borders, and are happy to be notified with corrections.

The four lists that comprise China reflective extensive research into names, elevations and promience values conducted over a period of several years. China is completely mapped at 1:50,000 scale, but these maps are heavily restricted to the public and we have unfortunately not had access to much of this information. Information about source material is in the footnotes below.

Compiled 2003-6 by Jonathan de Ferranti, Eberhard Jurgalski and Aaron Maizlish. List ©2006 www.peaklist.org

firest release: March 12, 2006

Rank	Summit Name	Alt. Names	Province	Country	Elevation	Prominence	Saddle	Latitude	Longitude	ID Code	Elev (ft.)	Prom (ft.)	Notes
Sichuan Province
1	Minya Konka	HP Gongga Shan	Sichuan	China	7556	3642	3914	29º35'42"N	101º52'36"E	AS019	24790	11949
2	Jiuding Shan		Sichuan	China	4969	2808	2161	31º32'36"N	103º51'12"E	AS057	16302	9212
3	Yaomei Feng	HP Siguniang Shan, Siguliang	Sichuan	China	6250	2571	3679	31º06'24"N	102º54'06"E	AS073	20505	8435
4	Huatou Jian		Sichuan	China	4750	2223	2527	28º43'45"N	102º22'45"E	AS142	15584	7293
5	LAMO-SHE		Sichuan	China	6070	2093	3977	29º56'57"N	102º03'00"E	AS169	19914	6867
6	Xuebao Ding		Sichuan	China	5588	2057	3531	32º40'33"N	103º50'48"E	AS156	18333	6749
7	Kawarani		Sichuan	China	5992	2018	3974	31º27'09"N	100º13'24"E	AS245	19659	6621
8	Ge'nyen		Sichuan	China	6204	2000	4204	29º48'27"N	099º36'21"E	AS223	20354	6562
9	DALYANDUN RANGE		Sichuan	China	4041	1905	2136	27º53'39"N	103º14'12"E	AS255	13258	6250
10	Xiannairi	HP Gongga Xueshan	Sichuan	China	6032	1878	4154	28º23'48"N	100º20'57"E	AS254	19790	6161
11	HP Lunan Shan		Sichuan	China	4300	1760	2540	27º33'00"N	102º21'18"E	AS343	14107	5774
12	DAPIN SHAN		Sichuan	China	5412	1728	3684	30º12'30"N	102º19'54"E	AS357	17756	5669
13	Chola Shan I		Sichuan	China	6168	1703	4465	31º47'12"N	099º04'24"E	AS428	20236	5587
14	JIANKHO SHAN		Sichuan	China	5300	1692	3608	31º27'09"N	103º23'57"E	AS381	17388	5551
15	JIAOJIN SHAN		Sichuan	China	5734	1681	4053	30º35'15"N	102º10'06"E	AS414	18812	5515
16	Unknown Name		Sichuan	China	3030	1656	1374	32º21'24"N	104º50'45"E	AS438	9941	5433
17	Jinping Shan		Sichuan	China	4420	1630	2790	28º20'33"N	101º45'15"E	AS488	14501	5348
18	Unknown Name		Sichuan	China	4260	1625	2635	28º57'30"N	102º56'12"E	AS462	13976	5331
19	Haizi Shan		Sichuan	China	5820	1578	4242	30º22'45"N	101º41'57"E	AS485	19094	5177
20	Unknown Name		Sichuan	China	5744	1563	4181	30º16'03"N	101º57'39"E	AS535	18845	5128
21	YAOJI SHAN		Sichuan	China	3590	1552	2038	28º58'42"N	103º15'57"E	AS569	11778	5092
E1	Unknown Name		Sichuan	China	5300	1474	3826	29º37'51"N	101º16'27"E	AS670	17388	4836
E2	Unknown Name		Sichuan	China	5876	1452	4424	29º17'45"N	101º54'30"E	AS694	19278	4764
E3	Unknown Name		Sichuan	China	3430	1438	1992	26º59'33"N	101º50'06"E	AS701	11253	4718
Yunnan Province
1	Shanzidou	HP Yulong Xueshan	Yunnan	China	5596	3202	2394	27º05'54"N	100º10'30"E	AS028	18359	10505
2	HP Hung-Wang Shan		Yunnan	China	4330	2470	1860	26º08'57"N	102º54'48"E	AS092	14206	8104
3	Daxue Shan		Yunnan	China	3500	2041	1459	24º06'42"N	099º38'24"E	AS186	11483	6696
4	YAO SHAN		Yunnan	China	4050	1996	2054	27º12'48"N	103º04'39"E	AS210	13287	6548
5	Unknown Name		Yunnan	China	4030	1837	2193	26º09'30"N	103º14'09"E	AS217	13222	6027
6	Haba Xueshan		Yunnan	China	5396	1794	3602	27º19'06"N	100º06'00"E	AS316	17703	5886
7	Unknown Name		Yunnan	China	4520	1786	2734	27º34'36"N	100º18'39"E	AS318	14829	5860
8	Unknown Name		Yunnan	China	3480	1750	1730	26º44'06"N	100º27'42"E	AS347	11417	5741
9	Phu Si Lung		Yunnan	Vietnam/China	3076	1750	1326	22º37'33"N	102º47'15"E	AS348	10092	5741
10	Dabaicao Ling		Yunnan	China	3680	1738	1942	26º08'27"N	101º10'51"E	AS362	12073	5702
11	Xuebang Shan		Yunnan	China	4260	1735	2525	26º28'48"N	099º29'51"E	AS359	13976	5692
12	HUNHUA SHAN		Yunnan	China	3420	1718	1702	23º57'27"N	100º15'39"E	AS383	11220	5636
13	FINCHUIYANOU RANGE		Yunnan	China	3580	1590	1990	25º29'21"N	099º04'30"E	AS511	11745	5216
14	LAOTZYUNSHAN		Yunnan	China	4500	1558	2942	26º53'00"N	099º36'39"E	AS567	14764	5111
15	Unknown Name		Yunnan	China	2995	1544	1451	23º25'48"N	099º12'57"E	AS703	9826	5066
E1	DYANTSAN SHAN		Yunnan	China	4085	1465	2620	25º40'18"N	100º05'33"E	AS675	13402	4806
E2	LOPULA RANGE		Yunnan	China	2640	1450	1190	24º34'24"N	097º57'42"E	AS705	8661	4757

Sources:

Data Sources: This page represents years of compilation by the authors from a variety of sources including direct communication with researchers and from published material, principally 1) various mountaineering literature, 2) Soviet topographic mapping at 1:100,000 and 1:200,000, 3) extensive analysis of SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) digital elevation data, 4) names and elevations in publications by the China Mountaineering Association and in the geonames database, 5) Chinese Snow Mountain topographic map series, and 6) both commercial and national topographic surveys including the recent Finnish survey of Nepal where applicable. We have striven to sort through extremely divergent elevation values and toponymy in order to provide a list that best reflects accurate and supportable data. Notably, we have analyzed all published values against SRTM for reasonableness, and in many cases propose here for the first time, elevation estimates that we believe are more accurate than old survey values.

Names: We have not been able to determine reliable placenames for a significant number of summits in China. The tradition in Tibet and China is to give a name to an entire mountain range, and many of the less-famous peaks do not have well-known local names apart from that of their range. Names in quotation marks are working names for unnamed summits (mostly in the Eastern Karakoram) from an unpublished 1984 study. Names in capitals are those that we transliterated directly from the cyrillic on the Russian topographic maps, and have not thus far confirm their accuracy or pinyin spelling. In addition, 28 peaks in China are name unknown, where we feel that the name of the larger range is not descriptive enough. Submissions of names are welcome.

Saddle and prominence values are derived almost exclusively from SRTM data, with some reliance on Soviet mapping. It is generally felt that these values are accurate to ±20 meters.

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