The average altitude is 2466 meters.

The terrain of Lijiang City is high in the northwest and low in the southeast. The highest point is the main peak of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, with an altitude of 5,596 meters. The lowest point is the Tangba River Estuary in Shilongba Township, Huaping County, with an altitude of 1,015 meters. The maximum height difference is 4,581 meters. To the west of Yulong Mountain is the alpine canyon sub-area cut by the Hengduan Mountains. The mountains are high and the valleys are deep, the mountains are steep and straight, and the rivers cut deep into it.

The east of Yulong Mountain belongs to the Zhongshan Mountain Sub-region of Northwest Yunnan in the Eastern Yunnan Basin Mountain Plain Area. It has a higher altitude and thicker mountains. There are widely developed east-west valleys on both sides of the main mountain range, forming an intricate landform landscape with undulating terrain and huge differences in altitude. There are 111 large and small dams dotted among the mountains, with altitudes generally above 2,000 meters. Among them, Lijiang Dam is the largest, with an area of ??about 200 square kilometers and an average altitude of 2,466 meters.

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The Jinsha River flows through the city for 615 kilometers, with a multi-year average flow of 1541.9 cubic meters/second and an annual transit water volume of 41.63 billion cubic meters. Excluding the Jinsha River transit flow, the city's total annual runoff of water resources (self-produced water) is 8.355 billion cubic meters, of which: surface runoff is 5.541 billion cubic meters and total groundwater is 2.814 billion cubic meters. The city's total water resources are 49.985 billion cubic meters. ?

Chenghai has a water storage capacity of 190,000 cubic meters. When the water level of Lugu Lake is 2,690 meters, the volume reaches 2.072 billion cubic meters. The sea surface area of ??Lashi is 9.33 square kilometers, with a corresponding volume of 18.4 million cubic meters. The water storage project has expanded the storage capacity to 40 million cubic meters.