Hongyuan County
Hongyuan County
红原县 • སྐ་ཁོག་རྫོང་། Gakog, Gaqu, Hungyoin | |
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 Five Flowers Lake | |
 Location of Hongyuan County (red) in Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan | |
  Hongyuan Location in Sichuan  Hongyuan Hongyuan (China) | |
| Coordinates: 32°52′35″N 102°32′24″E / 32.87639°N 102.54000°E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Sichuan |
| Autonomous prefecture | Ngawa |
| County seat | Kyungqu |
| Area | |
• Total | 8,398 km2 (3,242 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 46,644 |
| • Density | 5.6/km2 (14/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | www |
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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་། ཧུང་ཡོན་རྫོང་། | ||||||||||
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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]
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.[3]
The country is served by Aba Hongyuan Airport.
Governance
[edit]Hongyuan County Public Security Bureau
[edit]The Hongyuan County Public Security Bureau (Chinese: 红原县公安局) is the primary law enforcement agency in Hongyuan county. It operates 10 police stations and 1 Jail along with a traffic police unit, a forestry unit and a plains unit.[4] As of 2016, the forestry unit had 16 officers.[5]
Line of duty-deaths
[edit]On 15 March 2020, a officer of the forestry unit died due to duty-related illness.[6]
Hongyuan County Fire and Rescue Battalion
[edit]The Hongyuan County Fire and Rescue Battalion (Chinese: 红原县消防救援大队) provides firefighting and rescue services within the county.[7]
Climate
[edit]Hongyuan has a subarctic climate (Köppen Dwc) with short, mild summers and cold winters, although not as cold as subarctic climates at higher latitudes. It is affected by the Asian Monsoon.
| Climate data for Hongyuan, elevation 3,492 m (11,457 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 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) |
| 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 |
| Percentage possible sunshine | 68 | 60 | 53 | 52 | 46 | 39 | 47 | 51 | 46 | 49 | 68 | 73 | 54 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[8][9] | |||||||||||||
Administrative divisions
[edit]Hongyuan County has 6 townships and 4 townships:
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
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| 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 | |
National priority protected sites
[edit]There is 1 National priority protected site in Hongyuan County.
- Aba Long March Relics - added as part of the 6th Batch of National Priority Protected Sites[10]
References
[edit]- ^ "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. Archived from the original on December 2, 2024.
- ^ "Kakhok | Shanti Knowledge Maps". mandala.shanti.virginia.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-18.
- ^ "About Us Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine." Southwest University for Nationalities. Retrieved on November 16, 2015.
- ^ "县公安局". Hongyuan county government. Retrieved 2025-03-12.
- ^ "红原县森林公安局2016年度部门决算公开编制说明_红原县人民政府". www.hongyuan.gov.cn. Retrieved 2025-03-12.
- ^ "四川红原县30岁民警牺牲在抗疫一线-新华网". www.xinhuanet.com. Retrieved 2025-03-12.
- ^ "红原县消防救援大队开展消防安全知识宣传活动_红原县人民政府". www.hongyuan.gov.cn. Retrieved 2025-03-12.
- ^ 1991-2020 normals "Climate averages from 1991 to 2020". China Meteorological Administration. 2023-04-20. Archived from the original on 2023-04-17.
- ^ 1981-2010 extremes 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
- ^ "国务院关于核定并公布第六批全国重点文物保护单位的通知". www.gov.cn. Retrieved 2025-03-12.
- ^ "我国海拔最高的红军烈士墓". zqb.cyol.com. Retrieved 2025-03-12.
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