Daxiangling or Daxiang Range is a fairly small mountain range in China's Sichuan Province. It runs in the general western and northwestern direction from the famous sacred Mount Emei

Mount Emei

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, and is part of the western mountainous rim of the Sichuan Basin

Sichuan basin

The Sichuan Basin is a lowland region in southwestern China. Despite its historical name, it is not only synonymous to Sichuan province, comprising its central and eastern portions as well as part of Chongqing Municipality...

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Administratively, the mountains are within the prefecture-level cities

Prefecture-level city

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 of Ya'an

Ya'an

Ya'an is a prefecture-level city in the western part of Sichuan province of Southwest China, located just below the Tibetan Plateau.-History:...

, Meishan

Meishan

Meishan , formerly known as Meizhou or Qingzhou , is a prefecture-level city with more than 100,000 inhabitants in Sichuan province of the People's Republic of China. Meishan is in the southwest of Sichuan Basin....

, and Leshan

Leshan

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The Daxiangling forms a divide between the valley of the Dadu River (which flows to the west, and then to the south, of the mountains) and that of its tributary, the Qingyi River (which is to the northeast of the Daxiangling).

The narrow valley of the Dadu separates the Daxiangling from the Xiaoxiangling

Xiaoxiangling

Xiaoxiangling , or Xiaoxiang Range is a fairly small mountain range in China's Sichuan Province. It is part of the complicated system of mountains of south-central Sichuan, and runs in the general north-south direction, within the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture and the adjacent parts of Ya'an...

 Range to the south, and the great Daxue Mountains

Daxue Mountains

The Daxue Mountains are a great mountain range in the western part of Sichuan province in Southwest China. It is part of the Hengduan Mountains, a complicated system of mountain ranges of western Sichuan, which itself is adjacent to the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau.The Daxue Mountain Range...

to the west.