The Jiaohe ruins, known to the local Uyghur people as Yarghul, are the remains of a city in the Yarnaz Valley in Xinjiang, China, about ten kilometres west of the city of Turpan. The city was the capital of the Tocharian kingdom of Jushi. It is a natural fortress, set on top of a steep cliff on a leaf-shaped plateau between two deep river valleys, and it was an important stop on the Silk Road. The ruins are now a place visitors can see, and they record how a walled desert city was built to be defended by the land itself rather than by its walls alone.
Facts
Elevation (m) Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Opentopodata: SRTM 90 m elevation at the site coordinates
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"elevation": 56.0
2. Koppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koppen-Geiger climate classification updated (ASCII data)
Koppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Cell 42.75 N, 89.25 E, class BWkQuote, Cell 42.75 N, 89.25 E, class BWk
42.75 89.25 BWk
3. IANA Time Zone Database: tz database zone1970.tab
IANA Time Zone Databasezone1970.tab, Asia/UrumqiQuote, zone1970.tab, Asia/Urumqi
Xinjiang Time
Jiaohe ruins (Wikipedia)
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is a ruined city in the Yarnaz Valley, 10 km (6.2 mi) west of the city of Turpan in Xinjiang, China
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is a ruined city in the Yarnaz Valley, 10 km (6.2 mi) west of the city of Turpan in Xinjiang, China
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is a country in East Asia
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