Xianfeng County, which belongs to Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Hubei Province, is the west gate of Hubei Province. The name of the county takes the meaning of the year of Xianfeng, and it has the reputation of Nanxiong Town in Beijing and Pinghan in Chu and Shu in ancient times. Located at the junction of Hubei, Hunan, Guizhou and Chongqing, it is 98 kilometers away from Enshi, where the state capital is located, and 53 kilometers away from Qianjiang District of Chongqing. It is located in the east of Wuling Mountain and southwest of Hubei. The heart of Chu and Shu is the key to Jingnan.
Xianfeng county has a total land area of 2,550 square kilometers, including 44,000 hectares of cultivated land, with an average elevation of about 800 meters. By the end of 2002 1 year, Xianfeng county had jurisdiction over 7 towns and 3 townships1district working committee, including Tujia, Miao, Korean, Dongxiang, Mongolian and She. According to the data of the seventh census, by 2020, there will be 6543 people.
Geographical environment of Xianfeng county
There are 333 large caves in the county, with rolling mountains and ravines. The main high mountains are Xingdou Mountain, Rentou Mountain, Erxianyan and Pingbaying. There are more than 7,900 hills with complex terrain, high in the south and low in the middle, and inclined to the west in the east. Along the Longtan river bed, the northeast is high and the southwest is low, forming a river backflow, with the highest elevation of 196544.
There are more than 20 kinds of minerals that have been developed, utilized and discovered in Xianfeng County, such as coal, stone coal, bauxite, kaolin, water-resistant clay, silica, phosphate rock, iron ore, lead-zinc mine, copper mine, mercury mine, fluorite mine, barite, dolomite, marble and limestone. Coal is a bituminous coal with high sulfur and high calorific value, mainly produced in Yangdong, Jiamachi, Dingzhai and Jianshan trumpet trough, with a cumulative resource of 49.62 million tons, of which 38.46 million tons have been proved. There are some resources in other blank areas and deep coal mining areas, and the reserves are unknown.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Xianfeng County