Dongchuan, Kunming
The district was approved to form from the former Dongchuan City by the State Council on December 6, 1998.[3] The area around Huagou in the Wumeng mountains has become famous through photographers who discovered the unique local landscape and its Red Earth scenery in the 1990s.Autonyms of Yi subgroups in Dongchuan are Nisepu 尼色普 and Gepu 戈普.Other ethnic groups in Dongchuan are Miao (Big Flowery Miao 大花苗 subgroup), Hui, and Han (Dongchuan City Gazetteer 1995).[7] The Dongchuan mineral resource is rich and it has one of six biggest copper deposits in China.