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Beichuan Qiang City and Earthquake Ruins 北川羌城Běichuān Qiāngchéng
5A scenic area · Mianyang, Sichuan
- Time needed
- Half a day to 1 day
- Days to budget
- 1 day
- City
- Mianyang
- Region
- Sichuan
- Type
- Culture
- Listed as
- 5A scenic area
About Beichuan Qiang City and Earthquake Ruins
Beichuan, China's only Qiang autonomous county, was devastated by the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, and this area links the rebuilt county town at Yongchang with the memorial sites of the disaster. The new town has the Qiang Folk Museum, devoted to the culture of the Qiang people, while about 25 km to the north the ruins of the old county town are preserved as a memorial beside the 5·12 Wenchuan Earthquake Memorial museum.
How to get to Beichuan Qiang City and Earthquake Ruins
The new town is about 40 minutes by road west of Mianyang; the old-town ruins are roughly another 40 minutes' drive north.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Weiste Agricultural Park, Beichuan 维斯特农业观光园 (under 10 km), Mount Xunlong 寻龙山 (under 10 km), Mount Luofu, Anzhou 罗浮山 (10 km), Kaixi Temple 开禧寺 (20 km).
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