Situated in Songpan County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, it has an area of 700km2, and is like a giant golden dragon stretching down, being famous for its colorful pools, snow-clad mountains, forests, gorges and waterfalls. Its main landscapes are concentrated within the Huanglong (Yellow Dragon) Valley that is about 3.6km long, and there are calcium carbonate travertine covering all over the valley in a terraced-field arrangement, to enjoy reputation in the world with its abundant flora and fauna resources, being reputed as “World Wonderful Sight” and “Fairyland on Earth”. In 1992 it was put in the “World Natural Heritage List”.
