Tags: Mountain Range.
The Qin Mountains (simplified Chinese: 秦岭; traditional Chinese: 秦嶺; pinyin: Qín Lǐng; Wade–Giles: Ch’in2 Ling3) are a major east-west mountain range in southern Shaanxi province China. The mountains provide a natural boundary between the North and South of the country and support a huge variety of plant and wildlife some of which is found nowhere else on Earth.To the north is the densely populated Wei River valley an ancient center of Chinese civilization.