Shuidonggou Great Wall (4) Red Mountain Fortress (1) Arrival

Red Fortress , how to get There :

Shuidonggou (水洞沟) - Water Cave Gully Great Wall of China, in

Yinchuan Prefecture and Yanchi County, Wuzhong Prefecture, of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.

Location Coordinates: 38° 16′ 43.09″ North, 106° 31′ 53.45″ East.

In Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region there are five sections of The Great Wall of China. Taken from East to West, the first of these is Yanchi County Great Wall of China. Subsequent parts of the Great Wall are; Shuidonggou (水洞沟) (Coordinates: 38° 16′ 43.09″ North, 106° 31′ 53.45″ East), Dawukou also known as Jiucai Gou (Coordinates: 39° 4′ 7.97″ North, 106° 21′ 14.52″ East), Sanguankou or Helan Pass (三关口长城) (Coordinates: 38° 20′ 48.72″ North, 105° 49′ 23.74″ East) and Songwei or Zhongwei (Coordinates: 37° 31′ 8.21″ North, 105° 10′ 54.41″ East).

The Shuidonggou Great Wall of China can be found due East of Yinchuan, the Capital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and is situated on the Eastern Bank of the Yellow River (Huanghe). Strictly speaking the Western parts of the Shuidonggou Great Wall are situated in Yinchuan Prefecture and its Eastern parts situated in Wuzhong City Prefecture (of Ningxia).

In the East, the Shuidonggou Sections of the Great Wall of China connect to the Yanchi Great Wall Sections (Wuzhong Prefecture). In the West they end at the Yellow River (Huang He) at the village of Henghcheng. Hengcheng, as is described in more details below, is a historic location for several reasons. Among things, it used to serve as an important port along the Yellow River, that is before the river was dammed and its waters subsequently dwindled.

(5a) Red Mountain Fortress - Arrival

This page was last updated: July 21, 2017

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