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Simao Overview

Brief Introduction

Simao, once being one of the famous silk roads in the south in ancient times, is a wide area providing the land of thirty two mu per person (mu is a traditional unit of area, equaling to 1/6 acre). Due to the 98.3% mountain topography with the altitude from 376meters to 3306 meters and the location of the tropic of cancer, this area features with the vertical climate.

Simao used to be an important stop of the “Tea Road”, a road for people who transported tea by horses. Influenced by the subtropical monsoon climate, seldom frost falls here which makes Simao a main producer of the famous Pu Er tea, as well as one of the largest tea producing area of China.

With ten items of provincial relics protection unit and forty-nine items of county-level ones, Simao is increasingly attractive and impressive in the eyes of the experts, learners and tourist both at home and abroad with its mystery landscapes and interests, featured customs, famous people, precious animals and plants, special local food, convenient transportation, etc. Simao is also famous for its thirty-six minority peoples with the population of 1,440,000 which accounts for 60% of the total number of the Simao area. There are fourteen long-inhabited ethic groups here, including Hani, Yi, Dai, La ku, Wa, Bu lang and Yao minorities which form the brilliant local custom.

Area code: 0879

Area: 44221.34 square meters.

Population: 2,370,000 

Administrative division: There are Jiang cheng Ha ni minority and Yi minority autonomous county, Pu er Ha ni and Yi minority, Jing dong Yi minority, Jinggu Dai and Yi minority, Meng lian Dai, Laku, Wa minority, the Mo River Hani minority, West Alliance Wa minority, Lan cang La ku minority, Zhen Yuan Yi, Ha ni, Laku minority autonomous counties.

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