Hongyuan County
红原县 • སྐ་ཁོག་རྫོང་།
Gakog, Gaqu, Hungyoin
County
Five Flowers Lake
Five Flowers Lake
Location of Hongyuan County (red) in Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan
Location of Hongyuan County (red) in Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan
Hongyuan is located in Sichuan
Hongyuan
Hongyuan
Location in Sichuan
Hongyuan is located in China
Hongyuan
Hongyuan
Hongyuan (China)
Coordinates: 32°52′35″N 102°32′24″E / 32.87639°N 102.54000°E / 32.87639; 102.54000
CountryChina
ProvinceSichuan
Autonomous prefectureNgawa
County seatKyungqu
Area
 • Total8,398 km2 (3,242 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total46,644
 • Density5.6/km2 (14/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.hongyuan.gov.cn
Hongyuan County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese红原县
Traditional Chinese紅原縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanརྐ་ཁོག་རྫོང་།
སྐ་ཆུ་རྫོང་།
ཧུང་ཡོན་རྫོང་།

Gakog (Hongyuan) County (Tibetan: སྐ་ཆུ་རྫོང་། or སྐ་ཁོག་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 红原县) is a county in the north of Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. There is a river called Ka Chu/Gaqu (སྐ་ཆུ།) in the area and kog means "valley" or "area"; thus it means the area of the Ga River.[2]

Aerial panorama of Waqie Talin 瓦切塔林 in Hongyuan county.

This is the only county under the Prefecture with entirely yak herding pastoralists. The average altitude above the sea level is 3,600 m (11,800 ft). About 8,398 square meter and about 40,000 people reside (2004) mostly Amdo Tibetan. The language is spoken is one of the most conservative dialect among the Amdo Tibetan varieties. The county seat is Kyungqu [zh] (a.k.a. Khyungchu).

Southwest University for Nationalities maintains the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Ecological Environmental Protection and Advanced Technology for Animal Husbandry in Hongyuan County.[3]

The country is served by Aba Hongyuan Airport.

Climate

Climate data for Hongyuan, elevation 3,492 m (11,457 ft), (1991−2020 normals, extremes 1981−2010)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 15.4
(59.7) 		16.6
(61.9) 		19.6
(67.3) 		23.0
(73.4) 		24.6
(76.3) 		26.0
(78.8) 		25.7
(78.3) 		25.6
(78.1) 		24.9
(76.8) 		23.1
(73.6) 		15.4
(59.7) 		14.4
(57.9) 		26.0
(78.8)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 2.7
(36.9) 		4.7
(40.5) 		7.2
(45.0) 		10.9
(51.6) 		13.8
(56.8) 		16.0
(60.8) 		18.4
(65.1) 		18.2
(64.8) 		15.5
(59.9) 		10.9
(51.6) 		7.0
(44.6) 		3.7
(38.7) 		10.8
(51.4)
Daily mean °C (°F) −8.8
(16.2) 		−5.6
(21.9) 		−1.3
(29.7) 		2.8
(37.0) 		6.4
(43.5) 		9.7
(49.5) 		11.5
(52.7) 		10.8
(51.4) 		7.9
(46.2) 		3.0
(37.4) 		−2.7
(27.1) 		−7.6
(18.3) 		2.2
(35.9)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −18.5
(−1.3) 		−14.3
(6.3) 		−7.7
(18.1) 		−3.5
(25.7) 		0.4
(32.7) 		4.6
(40.3) 		5.8
(42.4) 		4.8
(40.6) 		2.5
(36.5) 		−2.1
(28.2) 		−9.5
(14.9) 		−16.2
(2.8) 		−4.5
(23.9)
Record low °C (°F) −36.0
(−32.8) 		−30.2
(−22.4) 		−26.3
(−15.3) 		−14.9
(5.2) 		−14.8
(5.4) 		−4.4
(24.1) 		−2.6
(27.3) 		−4.9
(23.2) 		−6.7
(19.9) 		−15.3
(4.5) 		−26.6
(−15.9) 		−30.7
(−23.3) 		−36.0
(−32.8)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 7.3
(0.29) 		11.0
(0.43) 		26.5
(1.04) 		50.3
(1.98) 		107.6
(4.24) 		131.0
(5.16) 		122.1
(4.81) 		109.3
(4.30) 		111.6
(4.39) 		70.8
(2.79) 		11.7
(0.46) 		3.9
(0.15) 		763.1
(30.04)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 5.9 8.0 12.6 15.9 21.2 21.3 18.8 17.2 19.5 17.9 6.8 4.1 169.2
Average snowy days 8.1 10.6 16.8 16.0 8.6 1.6 0.2 0.4 2.3 13.9 9.0 5.7 93.2
Average relative humidity (%) 58 59 65 68 72 75 76 77 79 77 66 59 69
Mean monthly sunshine hours 215.4 186.6 199.0 203.1 196.1 165.5 201.5 206.6 168.9 171.4 210.9 225.7 2,350.7
Percent possible sunshine 68 60 53 52 46 39 47 51 46 49 68 73 54
Source: China Meteorological Administration[4][5]

Administrative divisions

Hongyuan County has 6 townships and 4 townships:

Name Simplified Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie Administrative division code
Towns
Kyungqu Town
(Khyungchu, Qiongxi) 		邛溪镇 Qióngxī Zhèn ཁྱུང་མཆུ་གྲོང་རྡལ། khyung mchu grong rdal 513233100
Da'gyailing Town
(Sajinse, Shuajingsi) 		刷经寺镇 Shuājīngsì Zhèn ལྟ་རྒྱལ་གླིང་གྲོང་རྡལ། lta rgyal gling grong rdal 513233101
Waqên Town
(Waqie) 		瓦切镇 Wǎqiē Zhèn སྦྲ་ཆེན་གྲོང་རྡལ། sbra chen grong rdal 513233102
Amqog Town
(Anqog, Anqu) 		安曲镇 Ānqǔ Zhèn ཨ་མཆོག་གྲོང་རྡལ། a mchog grong rdal 513233103
Sêrdêu Town
(Sêrdiu, Sedi) 		色地镇 Sèdì Zhèn གསེར་རྡེའུ་གྲོང་རྡལ། gser rde'u grong rdal 513233104
Lungsi Town
(Longriba, Longri) 		龙日镇 Lòngrì Zhèn ལུང་ཟི་གྲོང་རྡལ། lung zi grong rdal 513233105
Townships
Gyarong Township
(Jiangrong) 		江茸乡 Jiāngróng Xiāng སྐྱ་རོང་ཡུལ་ཚོ། skya rong yul tsho 513233202
Carima Township
(Cha'erma) 		查尔玛乡 Chá'ěrmǎ Xiāng ཚ་རི་མ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། tsha ri ma yul tsho 513233203
Amoi Township
(Amu) 		阿木乡 Āmù Xiāng ཨ་མོའི་ཡུལ་ཚོ། a mo'i yul tsho 513233205
Mêwa Township
(Maiwa) 		麦洼乡 Màiwā Xiāng རྨེ་བ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། rme ba yul tsho 513233207

References

  1. ^ "阿坝州第七次全国人口普查公报第二号——县（市）人口情况" (in Chinese). Government of Ngawa Prefecture. 2021-06-11.
  2. ^ "Kakhok | Shanti Knowledge Maps". mandala.shanti.virginia.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-18.
  3. ^ "About Us Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine." Southwest University for Nationalities. Retrieved on November 16, 2015.
  4. ^ 1991-2020 normals "Climate averages from 1991 to 2020". China Meteorological Administration. 2023-04-20. Archived from the original on 2023-04-17.
  5. ^ 1981-2010 extremes 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
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