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Aba Tibetan & Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, or Aba Prefecture, for short, is located in the north-central part of Sichuan Province, where Sichuan Province interlocks with Gansu Province near the juncture of Qinghai, Gansu and Sichuan Provinces. Aba Prefecture's southeastern border lies about 200 kilometers northwest of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province. This puts the prefecture on the eastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, where the land drops dramatically off west and southwest into the Sichuan Basin, which stretches into Chongqing Municipality. The prefecture itself accordingly slopes downward along a northwest-southeast axis.

The northwestern part of Aba Prefecture is characterized by high plateau, with an altitude of 3500 to 4000 meters, that serves as the watershed for the Yellow and Yangtze River systems. The southeastern part of Aba Prefecture is an area of high mountains and low hills,... [ View Details ]