Mountain Ranges
Mountains frame the Sichuan Basin on all sides:
- the Qionglai Range in the west
- the Longmen Mountains in the northwest
- the Daba in the northeast.
The Yangtze River, flowing from the Sichuan Basin into the eastern China, passes through the Three Gorges in the Wu Mountains.
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“A mountain chain determines many things for the statesman and philosopher. The improvements of civilization rather creep along its sides than cross its summit. How often is it a barrier to prejudice and fanaticism!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)