In Xinjiang, there is a song singing about the Karamay city and it’s landscape, it goes: ‘”No green, no water and even no birds daring to fly.” The Devil’s City would be such a place.
The Devil’ s City also called file “Windy City”. located at the Wuerhe District of Kammay city, 100 kilometers NW of the city in the center of China’ s second largest basin—-Jungar Basin. the Wuerhe District of Karamay city, 100 kilometers’ northeast of the city.
Devil’s City have 30 sq kilometers in area and rises 8150 meters above sea level. The Mongolian called the Devel’ s City is “Sum Hake”, the Kazak people called it “Shayiti Kerxi, and they are the stone meaning in English …. “Ghost Town”.
In the evening, when file moon rising on the sky, you will suddenly hear a crying came from afar. Then some people muted near your ear or sneering to someone …… It is really a terrible place to stay. Some years ago a driver was once scared to jump into an oil tank to hided.
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Was there really a ghost hunted town?
According to a preliminary investigation, during the Cretaceous Period about one hundred million years ago, this place was covered by a vast freshwater are surrounded by hxuriant plants. It was a paradise for the Wuerhe Stegosaurs, the Palsies]rues, the Junggar Pterosaur and other dinosaurs, which lived and multiplied around the lake. But after two crystal movements file lake turned into a big desert interspersed with sandstone and slate. And the Devil’ s City way dominated by a typical dry continental climate. It is windy in spring and autumn, hot in summer and cold in winter. There are, on average, seventy-six days per year of high winds, and the strongest winds can blow forty-nine meters per second, the annual mean temperature is 8, while the coldest month of January averages -18.8 and the hottest month, July averages 28.4″C, and the highest temperature ever recorded was 42.9. The annual memo amulet of precipitation ins 102.6 millimeters and the annual mean amount of evaporation is 3,445.2 millimeters, 33.6 times of what of the annual mean rainfall . All of these works formed present day Devil’ s City. Now geologically known as the “Gobi Table.” This kind of topography were easy to be eroded by water and wind, hence it left a lot of the hills like the houses, walls, castles, halls, pavilions, towers, tigers, sheep, cancels, mushrooms, even some human like shapes not true to life. With the holes, pits on the cliffs, when it blows hard, they made the strange.
noise listened like the cries from the city with sad and slug, and tile sound winds heavy with yellow dust and sand. This really makes people’ s hair stand on end.
Except the strange sound here, the landscape would be the most attraction here. The beautiful sun set view will make you forget it is getting dark. On the ground, if you are lucky you can find some colorful stone like the Devil’ s teeth. So you can say: “That must be some devils fighting here yesterday evening, so they broken flier teeth on the ground. Here the stone can show it to you.”
Magically, here is one of the China famous oil fields. Since 1955, the slate has conducted large-scaled exploration and exploitation here. After 50 years of development, here became an important oil field known at home mid abroad. So the Devil’ s City makes its fame inst like the oil to all over China. And you will known how magically here it is.

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