Nyenchen Tanglha Mountains

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The Nyainqentanglha (also Nyenchen Tanglha, also Nyenchen Thanglha or Nyenchen Tangla ) is a 750 km-long mountain range in Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. He, together with the subsequent west Gangdise Mountains Trans Himalaya. The mountain represents the watershed between the Yarlung Zangbo ( Brahmaputra ) and the Nu Jiang ( Salween ) dar. North of the mountains extend the alpine steppes of the Chang Tang, there is also the largest Tibetan lake Nam Co. is

The mountain is divided into a western and an eastern part of whose boundary at 5432m high pass Tro La above the lake Arza Co ( Tib. Ar rtsa mtsho, ཨར་རྩ་མཚོ ་, Chin. Azha CuO阿扎 错), also Artsa Tso or Tso Atsa, is highlighted. Of the located in the western part four seven -meter peaks, the highest peak of 7,162 meters above Nyainqentanglha located in Damxung County, north of the Tibetan capital Lhasa and south of the Nam Co. The next town is Yangbajain.

The heavily glaciated eastern part is dominated by about 240, so far largely unclimbed six peaks. The highest peak is 6956 meters high Sepu Gangri (Chinese Sèpǔ Gangri色 普冈 日). The longest glacier is 35 km long Kyagqen Glacier ( glacier front 94 ° 50 'E, 30 ° 23' N). According to the published in 1988 in Chinese Introduction to the glaciers of China's Lanzhou Research Institute Glaciers are located in the mountain range Nyainqentanglha total of 2905 glaciers with a total area of ​​5898 km ².