The Leye-Fengshan UNESCO Global Geopark is situated in the transition zone between the Yunnan-Guizhou plateau and the Guangxi basin, and comprises of the adjacent Leye Dashiwei Tiankeng Group National Geopark and the Fengshan Karst National Geopark. It includes eight scenic areas (Huangjing tiankeng, Dashiwei tiankengs, Chuandong tiankeng, Luomeidong, Buliuhe River, Yuanyang Springs, Sanmenhai Karst Windows and Jiangzhou Cave) and two geologic museums (Chuanlongyan Geologic Museum and Leye Tiankeng Museum). The geopark has an elevation ranging from 274m to 1500m and geographical coordinates between 106°18′E and 107°06′E, 24°18′N and 24°50′N, with a total area of 930 square kilometers.
It is in the typical karst inlier area that it formed two large underground rive systems, high fengcong karst, the most concentrated groupings of tiankengs and cave chambers in the world, cave windows and speleothems, the world’s widest spanning natural bridges and the most complete skull fossil of the early-stage giant panda, as well as highly bio-diverse areas such as tiankeng-floor forests, the Buliuhe karst gorge forest, the Leye orchid reserve and caves containing cave-adapted animals; these resources are of global importance to science outreach and valuable for sightseeing.
The Geopark is a good environment of special geological background for human habitation, and it constitutes a vivid classroom of geological protection and a unique tourism resource with unique folk culture of ethnic minorities.
