Yopurga

Yopurga lies southeast of Kashgar on the plain between the Kashgar and Yarkand rivers. Water brought across the plain sustains fields and villages near the western edge of the Taklamakan Desert. A Qing geographical account records Yopurga as a settlement east of Kashgar, in the oasis country administered from that city. Beyond its cultivated land, the dry ground opens toward the sands of the Tarim Basin.