What is the altitude of Medog?

Medog is located in the southeast of Tibet, in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, with an area of 34,000 square kilometers and an average elevation of1.200m.. This is a place as spring-like as southern China, with the lowest elevation of only a few hundred meters. However, when you arrive here, you must descend from Nange Bawa Peak, which is as high as 7,756 meters in the north, to just a few hundred meters in the south.

The geographical environment of Medog

The territory of Medog County belongs to the alpine canyon landscape in the lower reaches of Yarlung Zangbo River. The terrain is high in the north and low in the south, surrounded by mountains in the north, east and west, and lotus in the south, so Medog means "flower" in Tibetan. Medog County is strongly influenced by the warm and humid airflow in the Indian Ocean, and the soil has obvious processes of humus accumulation, reduction, iron separation and ashing, with deep weathering and strong leaching.