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་།
County
Location of Hongyuan County (red) in Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan
Location of Hongyuan County (red) in Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan
CountryPeople's Republic of China
ProvinceSichuan
Autonomous prefectureNgawa
Area
 • Total8,398 km2 (3,242 sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Hongyuan County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese红原县
Traditional Chinese紅原縣
Tibetan name
Tibetanརྐ་ཁོག་རྫོང་།
སྐ་ཆུ་རྫོང་།

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]

The country is served by Hongyuan Airport.

Climate
Climate data for Hongyuan (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)
Average high °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)
Average low °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[3][4]

Administrative divisions

Hongyuan County has 5 townships:

  • Townships:
    • Amuke (阿木柯乡)
    • Kangle (康勒乡)
    • Longri (龙日乡)
    • Maiwa (麦洼乡)
    • Waqie (瓦切乡)

References
  1. "Kakhok | Shanti Knowledge Maps". mandala.shanti.virginia.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-18.
  2. "About Us Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine." Southwest University for Nationalities. Retrieved on November 16, 2015.
  3. 1991-2020 normals "Climate averages from 1991 to 2020". China Meteorological Administration. 2023-04-20. Archived from the original on 2023-04-17.
  4. 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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