What is the altitude of Qingyang?

Qingyang City is low in the south and high in the north, with an altitude of 885 meters to 2089 meters.

The relative height difference of the whole city is1.204m, with the highest at Majiadashan in the north and the lowest at Zhengping River Beach in the south. The Quaternary land continued to rise, and the Pleistocene gale swept through the loess, covering the loess plateau with a thickness of more than 100 meters. In Holocene, the Loess Plateau was eroded and cut by rivers and floods, forming the existing topography of plateaus, gullies, ridges, valleys, plains, mountains and slopes.

Extended data

Qingyang City, Gansu Province is connected to Yan 'an City, Shaanxi Province in the east; It is connected with Xianyang City in Shaanxi Province and Pingliang City in Gansu Province in the south, and adjacent to Yulin City in Shaanxi Province and Yanchi County in Ningxia in the north. The west borders Guyuan City, Ningxia. Qingyang is located in the inland area of the middle reaches of the Yellow River. Between east longitude 106 20' and north latitude 108 45' and north latitude 35 15' and north latitude 37 10'. There is Ziwuling in the east, Yangjuan Mountain in the north, Liupanshan Mountain in the west, uplift in the east, west and north, and low in the south-central, so it is called "basin". It is 208 kilometers long from east to west and 207 kilometers long from north to south.

Since ancient times, after continuous geological movements and changes, the Paleozoic land rose from the central part of Wang Yang, and hills appeared in Longdong. The largest Qingyang Lake basin in northwest China was deposited in Mesozoic, involving Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Mongolia. The Quaternary land continued to rise, and the Pleistocene gale swept through the loess, covering the loess plateau with a thickness of more than 100 meters. In Holocene, the Loess Plateau was eroded and cut by rivers and floods, forming the existing topography of plateaus, gullies, ridges, valleys, plains, mountains and slopes.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Qingyang