Bayannur 巴彦淖尔Bāyànnào’ěr

About Bayannur

Bayannur, Mongolian for 'rich lake', is the farmland of the Hetao plain on the Yellow River's northern loop, watered through canals led from the Sanshenggong barrage, built in 1959 to 1961. Reed-fringed lakes such as Ulansuhai Nur, a stopover for whooper swans and pelicans, and Nalin Lake break the fields. Along the Langshan range, the Yinshan Rock Paintings hold more than 10,000 engraved images, from the Neolithic to recent centuries, with later inscriptions in Turkic, Tangut and Mongolian.

Listed sites in Bayannur

9 sites in Bayannur are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.

• Hetao Agricultural Culture Expo Park 河套农耕文化博览园 4A scenic area · on the map
  The Hetao Agricultural Culture Expo Park is a farming-themed attraction in Wuyuan County, built by a local agricultural company within the Baliqiao farm-tourism complex.
• Hetao Liquor Industrial Tourism Area 河套酒业工业旅游区 4A scenic area · on the map
  The Hetao Liquor Industrial Tourism Area is a factory-visit attraction at the Hetao liquor company's distillery in Shanba, the Hanggin Rear Banner seat.
• Nalin Lake 纳林湖 4A scenic area · on the map
  Nalin Lake is a reed-fringed lake and wetland on the Nalintaohai farm in Dengkou County, at the western edge of the Hetao plain.
• Sanshenggong Water Conservancy Scenic Area 三盛公水利风景区 4A scenic area · on the map
  Sanshenggong is a large barrage on the Yellow River, built between 1959 and 1961, that feeds the Hetao irrigation district.
• Ulan Buh Sand Sea Lake 乌兰布和沙海湖 4A scenic area · on the map
  The Ulan Buh Sand Sea Lake tourist area lies at the eastern end of the Ulan Buh Desert in Hanggin Rear Banner, where dunes meet a lake, with the Yin Mountains to the north and the Yellow River to the south.
• Ulansuhai Nur (Wuliangsuhai) 乌梁素海 4A scenic area
  Wuliangsuhai, or Ulansuhai Nur, is a shallow freshwater lake on the north bank of the Yellow River in Urad Front Banner, formed from an old river channel and fed mainly by drainage from the Hetao irrigation district.
• Wuyuan Anti-Japanese War Memorial Park 五原抗战纪念园 4A scenic area · on the map
  The Wuyuan Anti-Japanese War Memorial Park commemorates the Wuyuan campaign of early 1940, in which Chinese forces under Fu Zuoyi retook Wuyuan, Linhe and Shanba from Japanese forces after about two months of fighting.
• Xinhure Ancient City 新忽热古城 National heritage site · on the map
  Xinhure is the ruin of a large walled town of the Yuan and Ming periods on the grassland of Urad Middle Banner, a roughly square enclosure about a kilometre across.
• Yinshan Rock Paintings 阴山岩画 National heritage site
  The Yinshan rock paintings are engraved images on cliffs and boulders along the Langshan range, spread over Dengkou County and the Urad banners of Bayannur.

On the map

Open Bayannur on the illustrated map to see its outline, its places and listed sites together, and to add them to a trip.

Learn more

• Wikipedia
• Official website
• Wikipedia (Chinese)