How many meters above sea level is Shannan City?

The average elevation of Shannan City is about 3,700 meters. Shannan is a prefecture-level city in Xizang Autonomous Region and a typical valley in southern Tibet. Its terrain gradually decreases from west to east, with a length of about 4 18km from east to west and a width of about 3 17km from north to south. Linzhi city in the east, India in the south, Shigatse city in the northwest and Lhasa city in the north. The boundary line is about 630 kilometers long. National key cultural relics protection units 16, and 85 key cultural relics protection units at the autonomous region level, with 500 points. It is the birthplace of Tibetan culture.

The origin of Shannan city

Shannan is one of the cradles of ancient Tibetan civilization. It is said that the combination of monkeys and hooligans gave birth to Tibetan land with a long history and splendid culture. About 40 thousand to 50 thousand years ago, there were Tibetan ancestors in Yalong River area. At the beginning of the 2nd century BC, people living in Yalong River gradually formed tribes. The first generation Zapnech, the leader of the wild tribes in the early west, unified the yak tribe, established an alliance regime and established a hereditary Zapnech system for future generations.