Greater Khingan

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The Great Hinggan Mountains ( also Big Chingan, Chinese大兴安岭/大兴安岭, Pinyin Da Xing'an Lǐng ) extends over about 1400 km in the north- eastern Inner Mongolia. The ridge begins at the northernmost point in China's named after this mountain district government, or more precisely in Mohe in Heilongjiang Province. The ridge is located southwest of the administrative regions of Hulun Buir the city, the Hinggan Federal and Tongliao City continues and extends to the river Xar Moron in Chifeng.

Its highest elevations are the Ôkôldûi with 1,530 m in the north and the Termo 1,725 ​​m in the south. With 1.24 billion cubic meters of timber reserves is the Great Hinggan one of the main forestry areas of China. In the ( mountain ) Taiga, which dominates the northern part of the Great Hinggan, brown bear and lynx, moose, and reindeer Isubrahirsch, Siberian weasel fire and sable, arctic hare, and hazel grouse are found. Here also breeds the very rare shed merganser. The northern half of the Great Hinggan falls gently to the west and goes into the cattle farmed grasslands of Hulun Buir Plateau over.

The northern reaches of the Great and Little Hinggan Mountains meet between Heihe and Huma in Heilongjiang Province.

Physical Hinggan Mountains | Great Hinggan Mountains | Small Hinggan Mountains | Yilehuli Shan

• Mountains in Asia
• Mountains in China
• Geography (Inner Mongolia )
• Geography ( Heilongjiang )