Shangri-La Alpine Botanical Garden

Visitor information

Also known as

香格里拉高山植物园

City

Shangri-La

Address

Shangri-La County

Coordinates

27.8998768, 99.6381083

About Shangri-La Alpine Botanical Garden

Shangri-La Alpine Botanical Garden is located on Huanhu Road, Gongbin Village, Napahai, Jiantang Town, Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. It covers an area of 7,247 hectares and covers the original sub-alpine bright coniferous forest and alpine dark coniferous forest areas on both sides of the Shuoduogang River. The altitude is between 3,200-3,600 meters. It is the first public welfare botanical garden in Tibetan areas in my country and a comprehensive botanical garden established in low-latitude and high-altitude areas. The park was planned to be established in 1999 and officially opened in 2015. It focuses on alpine plant conservation and covers functional areas such as genetic resource conservation areas and scientific research and production areas. There are more than 900 species of native higher plants, including alpine water leek, Yulong fern, peach and so on.

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