Hengduan Mountains

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F The Hengduan Mountains ( Chinese横断 山脉, Pinyin Hengduan Shānmài ) covers an area of ​​800,000 km ² in the southeast of the Tibetan highlands in China ( Asia). Its main peak Gongga Shan measures 7556 m. As an eastern continuation of the mountain knot of the Himalayas, Nyainqentanglha with the substring of Taniantawang Shan, this mountain range between the northern and eastern borders of Myanmar and beyond the extreme east east of the Tibet Autonomous Region and the two Chinese provinces of Yunnan and Sichuan extends between 22 ° and 32 ° 05 ' N and 97 ° and 103 ° E.

The most famous mountain ranges of the mountains are Gaoligong Shan, Nu Shan Yun Ling, separating the headwaters of the rivers Irrawaddy, Salween, Mekong and Yangtze River from each other.