Plate tectonics created the magic plateau wonderland several hundred million years ago;

Ancient magmatism and crust movement left forever imprint of time and space;

Long-term flowing water inherits brilliant Huanghe River civilization;

And the beautiful western area gives birth to the holy and pure Regong Art.

In Kanbula, unique geoheritages were left 200 million years ago by the demise of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean and the Indosinian orogeny, together with 2 items on World Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity List (Regong Art and Tibetan Opera), have created a symphonic movement that blends nature and culture.

In Kanbula, volcanic eruptions, one after another, shook the word, left cornucopia shaped calderas, scattered everywhere on Maixiu Mountain.

In Kanbula, the Paleo-Tethys Ocean had a violent liftup, deposited flysch with a thickness of over ten thousand meters; the multi-stages volcanic rocks from marine to terrestrial, revealed the final demise of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean.

In Kanbula, the tremendous force of plate collision, pushed the original horizontal rock layers to fold tightly and even nearly up-right like books, became a natural geological cross-section in Longwuxia Gorge.

In Kanbula, since 200 million years to date, plenty of geoheritages and rich natural resources were left by multi-stage crustal movements, created plateau, snowy mountains, forests, grasslands, cattle and sheep, minerals...

In Kanbula, the surging Yellow River from the snowy icebergs has drawn a colourful flowing curve on Huangnan’s land, leaving the beautiful blue water and reddish Danxia landform in Kanbula forever.

In Kanbula, the primitive ecological environment and abundant natural resources have attracted people of different ethnic groups to settle here, creating a diverse ethnic community and cultural intergration today.

Natural landscape