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Located in the Bouyei-Miao Autonomous County
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Zhenning, Anshun City, Guizhou Province, the
77.8-meter-high and 101.1-meter-wide waterfall ranks number one in China in terms of overall strength and represents the only world-class waterfall in China. |
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Huangguoshu Waterfall is a karst waterfall.
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| and erosion by water flow has created a 134-meter-long rare waterfall cave in cliffs,and people named it "Water Curtain Cave". |
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The first person discovered Huangguoshu Waterfall |
| and recommend it to the world is Xu Xiake (during the latter half of the Ming Dynasty), the greatest geographer, tourist and travelogue writer. In the eleventh year of Emperor Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty (1683), Xu Xiake accidentally discovered this marvelous spectacle on Baishui River. |
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There are 18 waterfalls of different sizes and styles |
around Huangguoshu Waterfall along the Baishui River, known as "Three Ties, Nine Steps and Eighteen Flying Waterfalls". Therefore, Huangguoshu is worthy of the name" Land of Waterfalls in China". |
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