Natural world · Evidence-led place record

Xiangxi UNESCO Global Geopark

CN

In July or September, do not miss the Singing Festival of the Miao people or the Autumn Harvest Festival.Discover the world’s largest red stone forest landscape, formed from rare oxidised sediments in the mid-Ordovician, shaped by tectonic activity.Visit Furong Town to explore the Xiangxi UNESCO Geopark Museum and learn about the region’s geology, biodiversity, and Tujia and Miao cultural heritage.

Xiangxi UNESCO Global Geopark in CN
Photo: Woudloper · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
CategoryUNESCO GLOBAL GEOPARK
LocationCN
DatasetUNESCO Global Geoparks
Listed/year2020
Oddness signal90/99
Data completeness95%
SignificanceGLOBAL GEOHERITAGE; 271,000 ha

The oddity, explained

Why is Xiangxi UNESCO Global Geopark unusual?

Xiangxi UNESCO Global Geopark appears here because the approved source classifies it as natural world. The source describes it as In July or September, do not miss the Singing Festival of the Miao people or the Autumn Harvest Festival.Discover the world’s largest red stone forest landscape, formed from rare oxidised sediments in the mid-Ordovician, shaped by tectonic activity.Visit Furong Town to explore the Xiangxi UNESCO Geopark Museum and learn about the region’s geology, biodiversity, and Tujia and Miao cultural heritage. Heritage Atlas treats that specific classification-and-description combination as the oddity; the score is a comparative discovery signal, not proof of mystery or the supernatural.

Evidence and further exploration

The coordinate, category and description remain tied to the cited source. Comparative oddness helps discovery; it does not add facts that the source does not provide.

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