Gyaca County

Gyaca County, (Tibetan: རྒྱ་ཚ་རྫོང་།, Wylie: rgya tsha rdzong, ZYPY: Gyaca Zong; Chinese: 加查县; pinyin: Jiāchá Xiàn) is a county of Shannan located in the south-east of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

Gyaca County
加查县 • རྒྱ་ཚ་རྫོང་།
County
Location of Gyaca County (red) within Shannan City (yellow) and the Tibet A.R.
Location of Gyaca County (red) within Shannan City (yellow) and the Tibet A.R.
Gyaca is located in Tibet
Gyaca
Gyaca
Location of the seat in the Tibet A.R.
Coordinates: 29°8′35″N 92°35′31″E
CountryPeople's Republic of China
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityShannan
SeatGyaca
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total23,534
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)

Gyatsa County is in the south of Tibet, stretching from the Podrang La pass along the southern side of the Brahmaputra River downstream to Pamda which is just to the southwest of Daklha Gampo, across the Brahmaputra. The county capital is in the town of Gyaca or Drumpa (46 km or 29 mi west of Pamda) which is alongside the Drakpo Dratsang Monastery. It is renowned for its walnuts and apricots.[2]

Lhamo La-tso, the small oval 'Oracle Lake', where senior Tibetan monks go for visions to assist in the discovery of reincarnations of the Dalai Lamas is located in Gyaca County,

Settlements

Climate
Climate data for Gyaca (1981−2010)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Average high °C (°F) 10.8
(51.4)		 12.6
(54.7)		 15.9
(60.6)		 18.5
(65.3)		 21.9
(71.4)		 24.9
(76.8)		 24.5
(76.1)		 23.7
(74.7)		 22.4
(72.3)		 20.0
(68.0)		 15.3
(59.5)		 11.5
(52.7)		 18.5
(65.3)
Average low °C (°F) −8.1
(17.4)		 −5.5
(22.1)		 −1.2
(29.8)		 2.5
(36.5)		 6.5
(43.7)		 10.8
(51.4)		 11.9
(53.4)		 11.6
(52.9)		 9.7
(49.5)		 3.4
(38.1)		 −3.1
(26.4)		 −7.4
(18.7)		 2.6
(36.7)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 1.2
(0.05)		 2.5
(0.10)		 10.1
(0.40)		 20.5
(0.81)		 39.2
(1.54)		 80.2
(3.16)		 147.9
(5.82)		 125.4
(4.94)		 71.2
(2.80)		 13.7
(0.54)		 2.0
(0.08)		 0.2
(0.01)		 514.1
(20.25)
Source: National Meteorological Center of CMA[3]

Footnotes
  1. Tibet: Prefectures, Cities, Districts and Counties
  2. Gyurme Dorje (1999). Tibet Handbook with Bhutan (2nd ed.). Bath, UK: Footprint Handbooks. p. 230. ISBN 978-1-900949-33-0.
  3. 1981年-2010年（加查）月平均气温和降水 (in Simplified Chinese). National Meteorological Center of CMA. Retrieved 25 November 2022.


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