Hongyuan County
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.[1]
Hongyuan County
红原县 • སྐ་ཁོག་རྫོང་། | |
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.png.webp) Location of Hongyuan County (red) in Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Sichuan |
| Autonomous prefecture | Ngawa |
| Area | |
| • Total | 8,398 km2 (3,242 sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Hongyuan County | |||||||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 红原县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 紅原縣 | ||||||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||||||
| Tibetan | རྐ་ཁོག་རྫོང་། སྐ་ཆུ་རྫོང་། | ||||||||||
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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 (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.[2]
Climate
| Climate data for Hongyuan (1981−2010) | |||||||||||||
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| 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) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 2.2 (36.0) |
4.0 (39.2) |
6.9 (44.4) |
10.3 (50.5) |
13.4 (56.1) |
15.7 (60.3) |
17.9 (64.2) |
17.6 (63.7) |
14.8 (58.6) |
10.7 (51.3) |
6.3 (43.3) |
3.4 (38.1) |
10.3 (50.5) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −9.4 (15.1) |
−6.1 (21.0) |
−1.6 (29.1) |
2.3 (36.1) |
6.0 (42.8) |
9.4 (48.9) |
11.2 (52.2) |
10.3 (50.5) |
7.4 (45.3) |
2.8 (37.0) |
−3.3 (26.1) |
−8.0 (17.6) |
1.7 (35.1) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −19.1 (−2.4) |
−14.7 (5.5) |
−8.0 (17.6) |
−3.9 (25.0) |
−0.1 (31.8) |
4.2 (39.6) |
5.6 (42.1) |
4.5 (40.1) |
2.2 (36.0) |
−2.3 (27.9) |
−10.1 (13.8) |
−17.0 (1.4) |
−4.9 (23.2) |
| 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) | 6.9 (0.27) |
10.1 (0.40) |
22.5 (0.89) |
47.4 (1.87) |
99.7 (3.93) |
128.4 (5.06) |
117.8 (4.64) |
112.7 (4.44) |
110.8 (4.36) |
71.4 (2.81) |
11.3 (0.44) |
4.1 (0.16) |
743.1 (29.27) |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 59 | 60 | 65 | 69 | 73 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 77 | 67 | 60 | 70 |
| Source: China Meteorological Data Service Center[3] | |||||||||||||
Administrative divisions
Hongyuan County has not towns and 5 townships:
- Towns:
- -
- Townships:
- Amuke (阿木柯乡)
- Kangle (康勒乡)
- Longri (龙日乡)
- Maiwa (麦洼乡)
- Waqie (瓦切乡)
References
- "Kakhok | Shanti Knowledge Maps". mandala.shanti.virginia.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-18.
- "About Us." Southwest University for Nationalities. Retrieved on November 16, 2015.
- 中国地面气候标准值月值(1981-2010) (in Chinese). China Meteorological Data Service Center. Retrieved 20 October 2018.