Li Po's Birthplace
Authored by K.Price and A.Jenkins

Sichuan is the home of the giant panda and golden-haired monkey.
It's climate is subtropical, humid, monsoonal climate in the eastern lowlands with frequent fog; temperate-subtropical highland climate in the west, with a lot of sunlight but low temperatures.  Sichuan's physical features consist of  a basin in the east, plateau in the west, mountain in thecentral south, highland swamps in the central north. Known as the Sichuan Basin, the eastern lowlands are closed off by mountains and plateaus on all sides. The drainage basin is crossed by the Yangtze River and is rich with red soil.  Sichuan has many mountians.  They are...  Minshan, Longmen, Micang, and Daba Mountains in the north,  Wushan Mountain in the east; Shaluli, Qionglai, and the Daxue Mountains in the west.  Most of the products of Sichuan are rice, corn, sweet potatoes, wheat, sorghum, rape, sugar cane, peanuts, tea, ramie, silk cocoons, cotton, jute, ambary hemp, sun-cured tobacco; tung oil, camphor, Chinese tallow trees, raw lacquer, white wax; silver fungus, bulb of fritillary, bamboo, oranges, tangerines, pears,yangtao, lychees, longans, bananas.  There minerals are iron, coal, managnese, natural gas, petroleum, salt, alluvial gold, copper, nickel, phosphorus, sulphur, and mica.