Huangyuan County (Chinese: 湟源县) is a county of Qinghai Province, China, under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Xining, the capital of Qinghai. The county seat is Chengguan Town, known in Mongolian as Dan Gar and Tibetan as Tongkor.
Huangyuan
湟源县 | |
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 Interactive map of Huangyuan | |
  Huangyuan Location of the seat in Qinghai | |
| 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 | 71.07/km2 (184.1/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Huangyuan County | |||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 湟源县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 湟源縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | སྟོང་སྐོར་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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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
editHuangyuan 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), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1991–present) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 13.1 (55.6) |
17.6 (63.7) |
24.0 (75.2) |
31.1 (88.0) |
27.6 (81.7) |
27.3 (81.1) |
32.7 (90.9) |
30.3 (86.5) |
26.2 (79.2) |
22.6 (72.7) |
17.7 (63.9) |
13.3 (55.9) |
32.7 (90.9) |
| 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) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −26.6 (−15.9) |
−25.4 (−13.7) |
−18.3 (−0.9) |
−12.0 (10.4) |
−5.0 (23.0) |
−1.2 (29.8) |
−0.1 (31.8) |
−0.7 (30.7) |
−4.3 (24.3) |
−13.6 (7.5) |
−22.3 (−8.1) |
−29.2 (−20.6) |
−29.2 (−20.6) |
| 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 |
| Percentage 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
editReferences
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.
- ↑ 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.
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