Sêrxü County

Sêrxü County (Tibetan: སེར་ཤུལ་རྫོང་། ; simplified Chinese: 石渠县; traditional Chinese: 石渠縣), also known as Sershul, Dzachuka, Serxu, or Shiqu is a county of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the northwest of Sichuan Province, China, bordering Qinghai to the west and the Tibet Autonomous Region to the southwest.

Sêrxü County

石渠县 · སེར་ཤུལ་རྫོང་།
County
Location of Sêrxü County (red) within Garzê Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan
Sêrxü
Location of the seat in Sichuan
Coordinates: 32°58′44″N 98°06′10″E
CountryPeople's Republic of China
ProvinceSichuan
Autonomous prefectureGarzê
Area
 • Total24,944 km2 (9,631 sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Sêrxü County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese石渠县
Traditional Chinese石渠縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanསེར་ཤུལ་རྫོང་།

Geography
Aerial view of Serxu County.

Serxu (sershul) County is situated at the northwest corner of Sichuan province, and is also the westernmost county-level division of the province. It is above 25,000 km² et and mainly covered by grasslands. Average level above sea is 4,200 m.

It has an area of over 25,000 square kilometers and is predominantly covered by grasslands used for nomadic herding. The population is around 68,000, 96% of whom are ethnic Tibetan.

By the end of 1997, there was an estimated livestock population of 581,470. These were mainly yaks, sheep, goats, and horses, but there was a small number of pigs. The human population of Shiqu County was approximately 63,400, 96.8% of which were ethnic Tibetans. There were 49,100 herdsmen, representing 77.6% of the population.

Sershul District villages include: Ariksar, Bumser, Changma, Dezhongma, Dzagyel, Geming, Gotsa, Junyung, Jowo, Kabshi, Kilung, Kyewu, Sershul Gompa, Serxu Dzong, Shaksa, Tromsa Genma, Tseboum Soumdo, Tsemkhog, Ombo and Wathul.

Sershul District has several monasteries, including : Ju Mohar, Sershul Monastery, Bumser Gonpo, Ariksar, Dzagyel, Changma, Trikar, Kabshi and Jowo.

Demography

The population of the district was 62,408 inhabitants in 1999.[1]

There are about 52,660 nomads in the district, i.e. 77,6% of the population.

Climate

References
  1. (in English) National Population Statistics Materials by County and City - 1999 Period, in China County & City Population 1999, Harvard China Historical GIS


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