Huangyuan County
Appearance
Huangyuan
湟源县 | |
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![]() Location of Huangyan | |
Coordinates: 36°40′55″N 101°15′22″E / 36.682°N 101.256°E | |
Country | China |
Province | Qinghai |
Prefecture-level city | Xining |
Seat | Chengguan Town |
Area | |
• Total | 1,545 km2 (597 sq mi) |
Population (2020) | |
• Total | 109,802 |
• Density | 71/km2 (180/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Huangyuan County | |||||||
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Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 湟源县 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 湟源 | ||||||
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Tibetan name | |||||||
Tibetan | སྟོང་སྐོར་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Huangyuan County (Chinese: 湟源县) is a county of Qinghai Province, China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Xining, the capital of Qinghai. It is under the administration of Xining city. The county seat is Chengguan Town, known in Mongolian as Dan Gar and in Tibetan as Tongkor.
The remains of Ladrolne Gompa and Rali Hermitage may be seen between Haiyan and Tongkor. A branch of Tongkor Monastery, known as Ganden Tengyeling (Ch. Cinghosi), just to the northwest of the Chengguan is also in ruins.[1]
Subdivisions
[edit]Huangyuan County is divided into 2 towns, 6 townships, and 1 ethnic township:
- Chengguan Town (
城 关镇) - Dahua Town (
大 华镇) - Dongxia Township (东峡乡)
- Heping Township (
和平 乡) - Bohang Township (
波 航 乡) - Shenzhong Township (
申 中 乡) - Bayan Township (
巴 燕 乡) - Sizhai Township (
寺 寨乡) - Nyida Tibetan Ethnic Township (
日月 藏 族 乡, ཉི་ཟླ་བོད་རིགས་ཞང་།)
Climate
[edit]Climate data for Huangyuan, elevation 2,675 m (8,776 ft), (2009–2020 normals) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 1.1 (34.0) |
4.3 (39.7) |
9.2 (48.6) |
14.2 (57.6) |
17.3 (63.1) |
20.2 (68.4) |
22.0 (71.6) |
21.5 (70.7) |
17.0 (62.6) |
12.5 (54.5) |
6.7 (44.1) |
2.1 (35.8) |
12.3 (54.2) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | −8.0 (17.6) |
−4.3 (24.3) |
0.8 (33.4) |
6.4 (43.5) |
10.0 (50.0) |
13.6 (56.5) |
15.5 (59.9) |
14.9 (58.8) |
10.8 (51.4) |
5.1 (41.2) |
−1.6 (29.1) |
−6.8 (19.8) |
4.7 (40.5) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −15.1 (4.8) |
−11.4 (11.5) |
−6.1 (21.0) |
−0.4 (31.3) |
3.8 (38.8) |
7.9 (46.2) |
10.1 (50.2) |
9.9 (49.8) |
6.5 (43.7) |
−0.1 (31.8) |
−7.6 (18.3) |
−13.6 (7.5) |
−1.3 (29.6) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 1.2 (0.05) |
1.5 (0.06) |
8.6 (0.34) |
20.1 (0.79) |
55.1 (2.17) |
68.8 (2.71) |
90.3 (3.56) |
89.7 (3.53) |
68.3 (2.69) |
20.8 (0.82) |
5.7 (0.22) |
1.5 (0.06) |
431.6 (17) |
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 2.7 | 2.9 | 5.5 | 7.4 | 12.2 | 15.5 | 16.2 | 15.4 | 15.2 | 8.3 | 3.7 | 2.5 | 107.5 |
Average snowy days | 4.5 | 6.0 | 7.8 | 5.5 | 1.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 4.2 | 5.5 | 3.8 | 39.1 |
Average relative humidity (%) | 46 | 44 | 45 | 50 | 58 | 67 | 72 | 75 | 75 | 67 | 58 | 52 | 59 |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 214.6 | 211.8 | 242.5 | 243.3 | 239.3 | 225.7 | 223.9 | 211.9 | 178.9 | 206.1 | 212.9 | 208.6 | 2,619.5 |
Percent possible sunshine | 69 | 68 | 65 | 61 | 55 | 52 | 51 | 51 | 49 | 60 | 70 | 70 | 60 |
Source: China Meteorological Administration[2][3] |
Tourist sites
[edit]- Dan Gar Ancient Town, the historic core of Chengguan Town, a historic trading town.
- Riyue Mountain and the remains of Tongkor Monastery, a mountain pass where Princess Wencheng supposedly traveled through in the 7th century CE.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Dorje, Gyurme. (1999). Footprint Tibet Handbook with Bhutan. (2nd Ed.) Footprint Handbooks, Bath, England. ISBN 0-8442-2190-2.
Footnotes
[edit]- ^ Dorje (1999), p. 536.
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中国 气象数 据 网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023. - ^
中国 气象数 据 网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.