Get to know Chuxiong
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- Administrative area
- County-level city · 县级市
- Part of
- Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture
- Chinese name
- 楚雄市
- Local areas
- County-level city guide
Area & population
- Area in the source
- 4,482.00 km²
- Population · 2020 census
- 631,530
Source: cited geographic source, as of the dates shown.
Camellias and temple buildings
Zixi Mountain lies west of the city, with a main summit reaching 2,500 metres. Its range curves from southeast towards the west and then north. Forested ridges surround Wansong Ridge (万松岭), and the landscape includes camellias, old vines and ginkgo trees. Ziding Temple (紫顶寺) contains a mountain gate, Heavenly Kings Hall, Mahavira Hall and scripture repository. Camellias and rhododendrons colour the mountain around the Spring Festival.
Nine storeys of good fortune
Futa Park (福塔公园) stands on Dongshan (东山) in Lucheng (鹿城). Its octagonal, reinforced-concrete pagoda rises fifty-nine metres on the site of a destroyed Ming-dynasty tower. Red-stone carvings on the first-storey exterior depict the four guardian creatures. Inside, each floor presents a different theme of good fortune, including learning, family harmony and virtuous conduct.
Sources for this guide
游-楚雄市人民政府 · Chuxiong City Government
Original English written from the listed sources and checked sentence by sentence against quoted extracts by a separate reviewer. Updated 2026-09-27.
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AI illustration · AI 示意图（仅供参考，非该地点实拍）Chuxiong Prefectural Museum楚雄州博物馆
Chuxiong Prefectural Museum (楚雄州博物馆) is a national second-class museum in Chuxiong city, Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, built in 1995 to hold the prefecture's archaeological and ethnographic collections.
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A long plank-decked suspension footbridge with chain-mesh railings running away from the camera through dense green forest, its deck strewn with dry leaves and lit in patches, ending at a dark gap in the trees ahead.Zixi Mountain紫溪山
Zixi Mountain (紫溪山) is a north-south trending forested ridge 20 kilometres west of Chuxiong city, Yunnan, rated a National Forest Park and a national AAAA-grade tourist attraction.
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Getting there
Chuxiong covers the centre of Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture. Search for 楚雄市 in a map app to find stations and your accommodation.
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Chuxiong Prefectural Museum and Zixi Mountain are both listed here. The linked place guides have entrance and visit details.
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Sources & geographic information
Administrative names and parent areas: Official geographic directory · Reference date 2026-09-06.
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