Jinchuan County or Quqên (Tibetan: ཆུ་ཆེན་རྫོང་།; Chinese:
Jinchuan County
Quqên, Dajinchuan | |
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Coordinates: 31°28′34″N 102°03′50″E / 31.476°N 102.064°E | |
Country | China |
Province | Sichuan |
Autonomous prefecture | Ngawa |
Seat | Dowu (Lewu) |
Area | |
• Total | 5,524 km2 (2,133 sq mi) |
Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 58,068 |
• Density | 11/km2 (27/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Website | www |
Jinchuan County | |||||||||||
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Tibetan | ཆུ་ཆེན་རྫོང་། | ||||||||||
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The county spans an area of 5,524 square kilometers, and has a population of about 73,000 as of 2019.[3]
Administrative divisions
editThe county is divided into 3 towns and 15 townships.[3][4] These township-level divisions are further divided into 112 village-level divisions.[3]
Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
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Towns | ||||||
Guangyinqiao Town (Tugqên) |
观音桥镇 | Guānyīnqiáo Zhèn | ཐུགས་ཆེན་གྲོང་རྡལ། | thugs chen grong rdal | 513226101 | |
Anning Town (Anxing) |
Ānníng Zhèn | ཨན་ཞིང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | an zhing grong rdal | 513226102 | ||
Dowu Town (Lewu) |
勒乌镇 | Lèwū Zhèn | མདོ་བུ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | mdo bu grong rdal | 513226103 | |
Manai Town (Manê) |
马奈镇 | Mǎnài Zhèn | མ་ནེ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | ma ne grong rdal | 513226104 | |
Townships | ||||||
Sai Township (Sha'er) |
Shā'ěr Xiāng | གསལ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | gsal yul tsho | 513226200 | ||
Qingning Township (Qênnying) |
庆宁乡 | Qìngníng Xiāng | ཆེན་ཉིང་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | chen nying yul tsho | 513226201 | |
Kor Township (Ge'er) |
咯尔乡 | Gē'ěr Xiāng | གོར་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | gor yul tsho | 513226202 | |
Hedong Township (Hodung) |
Hédōng Xiāng | ཧོ་ཏུང་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | ho tung yul tsho | 513226205 | ||
Hexi Township (Hoxi) |
Héxī Xiāng | ཧོ་ཞི་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | ho zhi yul tsho | 513226206 | ||
Gyêmo Township (Jimu) |
Jímù Xiāng | ཀྱེ་མོ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | kye mo yul tsho | 513226207 | ||
Sawa'gyo Township (Sawargyo, Sawajiao) |
撒瓦 |
Sāwǎjiǎo Xiāng | ས་བར་ཀྱོ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | sa bar kyo yul tsho | 513226208 | |
Kara'gyo Township (Kalajiao) |
卡拉 |
Kǎlājiǎo Xiāng | ཁ་ར་ཀྱོ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | kha ra kyo yul tsho | 513226209 | |
Osi Township (Ere) |
Érè Xiāng | འོ་བཟི་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | vo bzi yul tsho | 513226210 | ||
Ganai Township (Ergali) |
Èrgālǐ Xiāng | དགའ་གནས་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | dgav gnas yul tsho | 513226212 | ||
Akori Township (Akeli) |
Ākēlǐ Xiāng | ཨ་ཁོ་རི་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | a kho ri yul tsho | 513226213 | ||
Karsa Township (Kasa) |
卡撒乡 | Kǎsà Xiāng | མཁར་ས་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | mkhar sa yul tsho | 513226215 | |
Zênda Township (Zengda) |
曾达乡 | Zēngdá Xiāng | རྩེ་མདའ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | rtse mdav yul tsho | 513226216 | |
Josum Township (Dusong) |
Dúsōng Xiāng | རྗོ་གསུམ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | rjo gsum yul tsho | 513226217 | ||
Basi Township (Maori) |
Máorì Xiāng | འབའ་ཟི་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | vbav zi yul tsho | 513226220 |
History
editPrior to the 18th century, Greater Jinchuan was ruled by the Gyalrong Tibetan Chiefdom of Chuchen. In 1700, the kingdom of Trokyap submitted to the Qing rule. From 1747 to 1776, the Qing dynasty launched the Jinchuan campaigns to suppress the Jinchuan chiefdoms.
The county briefly belonged to the Revolutionary Government of Republic of Kerutetsa until 1935.[5] In 1950, the People's Liberation Army conquered the county.[5] The county was briefly renamed Dajinchuan County (simplified Chinese:
Geography
editThe county is bordered by Barkam to the north, Xiaojin County to the east, Zamtang County to the west, and Dawu County and Danba County to the south.[3]
The county lies within the Dadu River basin.[5] 42% of the county is forested.[3]
Climate
editClimate data for Jinchuan, elevation 2,169 m (7,116 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) | 20.7 (69.3) |
27.8 (82.0) |
30.9 (87.6) |
35.0 (95.0) |
38.7 (101.7) |
36.6 (97.9) |
38.1 (100.6) |
38.0 (100.4) |
35.9 (96.6) |
33.3 (91.9) |
24.8 (76.6) |
18.5 (65.3) |
38.7 (101.7) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 12.3 (54.1) |
16.5 (61.7) |
20.6 (69.1) |
23.5 (74.3) |
25.9 (78.6) |
26.8 (80.2) |
28.8 (83.8) |
29.2 (84.6) |
25.8 (78.4) |
21.3 (70.3) |
17.0 (62.6) |
12.5 (54.5) |
21.7 (71.0) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 2.7 (36.9) |
6.8 (44.2) |
11.1 (52.0) |
14.2 (57.6) |
16.8 (62.2) |
18.6 (65.5) |
20.2 (68.4) |
20.2 (68.4) |
17.4 (63.3) |
12.8 (55.0) |
7.4 (45.3) |
2.8 (37.0) |
12.6 (54.6) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −3.4 (25.9) |
0.1 (32.2) |
4.3 (39.7) |
7.5 (45.5) |
10.8 (51.4) |
13.8 (56.8) |
15.3 (59.5) |
15.2 (59.4) |
13.0 (55.4) |
8.4 (47.1) |
1.7 (35.1) |
−3.0 (26.6) |
7.0 (44.6) |
Record low °C (°F) | −9.7 (14.5) |
−6.9 (19.6) |
−5.7 (21.7) |
0.3 (32.5) |
2.1 (35.8) |
5.9 (42.6) |
8.0 (46.4) |
7.2 (45.0) |
5.2 (41.4) |
−1.2 (29.8) |
−6.1 (21.0) |
−10.7 (12.7) |
−10.7 (12.7) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 2.1 (0.08) |
6.0 (0.24) |
19.7 (0.78) |
51.9 (2.04) |
97.5 (3.84) |
153.8 (6.06) |
119.1 (4.69) |
94.9 (3.74) |
117.5 (4.63) |
67.1 (2.64) |
8.9 (0.35) |
1.3 (0.05) |
739.8 (29.14) |
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 1.7 | 3.7 | 8.8 | 13.5 | 19.3 | 22.3 | 18.6 | 16.1 | 17.8 | 15.7 | 4.2 | 1.3 | 143 |
Average snowy days | 2.3 | 2.9 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 1.1 | 7.4 |
Average relative humidity (%) | 50 | 45 | 46 | 54 | 62 | 72 | 72 | 70 | 75 | 74 | 64 | 56 | 62 |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 182.3 | 169.5 | 191.6 | 197.8 | 200.8 | 165.2 | 181.9 | 190.6 | 163.9 | 167.3 | 175.1 | 184.9 | 2,170.9 |
Percent possible sunshine | 57 | 54 | 51 | 51 | 47 | 39 | 42 | 47 | 45 | 48 | 56 | 59 | 50 |
Source: China Meteorological Administration[6][7] |
Notes and References
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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. - ^ Government of Ngawa Prefecture. "勒乌镇".
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金川 概 况 (in Chinese). Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture People's Government. 2019-09-06. Archived from the original on 2020-10-02. Retrieved 2020-10-02. - ^ 2019
年 统计用 区 划代码 (in Chinese). National Bureau of Statistics of China. 2019. Archived from the original on 2020-10-02. Retrieved 2020-10-02. - ^ a b c d 历史
沿革 (in Chinese). Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture People's Government. 2019-12-10. Archived from the original on 2020-10-02. Retrieved 2020-10-02. - ^
中国 气象数 据 网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023. - ^
中国 气象数 据 网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.