Sentence examples for mountain basin from inspiring English sources

It lies in a fertile mountain basin west of the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area.

Located in an interior mountain basin, it developed as the castle town of the Mizuno daimyo family.

Turfan Depression, Chinese (Pinyin) Tulufan Pendi or (Wade-Giles romanization) T'u-lu-f'an P'en-ti, also called Turpan Basin, deep mountain basin in the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang, northwestern China.

The Euphrates traverses a considerably greater distance than the Tigris from its mountain basin to the point where it meets the Mesopotamian alluvial plain at Al-Ramādī in Iraq.

Many of the contrasts were drawn from events in the lowland Maya area and applied to the entire culture area; others were concluded essentially by a comparison of the Classic Maya of the lowland tropical forest of northern Guatemala and the Yucatán Peninsula with the Postclassic Aztec living in central Mexico in a dry mountain basin 7,000 feet above sea level.

The eddy covariance technique was applied at two different sites with distinct land forms within an urbanizing mountain basin.

Interior sheltered mountain basins and valleys receive 40 to 70 inches (1,000 to 1,800 mm) annually.

It evokes life in mountain basins and alongside tributaries of the Yangtze.

Most of the population occupies small mountain basins (Suwa, Matsumoto, Ina, Hida, Zenkoji), in which sericulture and apple raising are specialties.

Mountain basins and valleys, from 2,000 to 4,000 feet (600 to 1,200 metres), have mean annual temperatures of 66 and 73 °F (19 and 23 °C).

Colonies of Koreans were settled in some of the mountain basins before and during the Japanese occupation of Northeast China (Manchuria; 1931 45); the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture now occupies a large area within Jilin province.