Uraqai

Uraqai lies in the Hetao, the country enclosed by the great northern bend of the Yellow River, where irrigated fields on the river plain meet grassland and dry upland. The bend offered pasture, water and crossing points to farming and herding peoples who moved along this frontier. In the Ming period the Hetao was a contested border zone between frontier garrisons and Mongol groups, and its economy mixed cultivation with herding.