Li River

The Li River or Li Jiang is a stream in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. It streams 83 kilometers 52 mi from Guilin to Yangshuo, where the karst mountains and waterway sights feature the acclaimed Li River journey. The Li River begins in the Mao'er Mountains in Xing'an County and streams the general southern way through Guilin, Yangshuo and Pingle. In Pingle the Li River converges with the Lipu River and the Gongcheng River and proceeds with south as the Gui River, which falls into the Xi Jiang, the western tributary of the Pearl River, in Wuzhou. Traveler boating water crafts travels from Xingping on the Li River.

The 437-kilometer 272 mi course of the Li and Gui Rivers is flanked by green slopes. Cormorant angling is regularly connected with the Lijiang see feathered creature insight. The Li River and tributaries empty the region out of Guilin to Yangshuo, plummeting from 141 m at Guilin to 103 m at Yangshuo. Mean stream past Guilin is 215 cubic meter for each second, and alluvium dregs comprising of very much arranged rock secured by silty sand, shape floodplains and patios along its course. However, it is the 2,600 m of Devonian and Carboniferous limestones and karst territory inside the Guilin Basin, that gives the region an emotional scene. Two particular sorts of karst are found, Fengcong, and Fenglin, which have developed for as far back as 10-20 million years, inside the Cenozoic.