Dêqên County
Dêqên County (Tibetan: བདེ་ཆེན་རྫོང་), or Deqin County (Chinese: 德钦县), is under the administration of Dêqên Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, located in the northwest of Yunnan province, China.
Dêqên County
德钦县 • བདེ་ཆེན་རྫོང་ | |
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.png.webp) Location of Dêqên County (pink) within Dêqên Prefecture (yellow) and Yunnan | |
  Dêqên Location in Yunnan | |
| Coordinates: 28°12′N 98°59′E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Yunnan |
| Autonomous prefecture | Dêqên |
| County seat | Dêqên Town |
| Area | |
| • Total | 7,596 km2 (2,933 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 3,300 m (10,800 ft) |
| Population (2020 census)[1] | |
| • Total | 54,736 |
| • Density | 7.2/km2 (19/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 674500 |
| Area code | 0887 |
| Website | deqin |
| Dêqên County | |||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 德钦县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 德欽縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | བདེ་ཆེན་རྫོང་ | ||||||
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Geography and climate
Dêqên occupies the northwest corner of Dêqên Prefecture, and in latitude has a range of 27° 33'−29° 15' N and in longitude has a range of 98° 36'−99° 33' E, covering an area of 7,596 square kilometres (2,933 sq mi),[2] bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region to the northwest and Sichuan to the northeast. It is located in the central part of the Hengduan Mountains, and contains the valleys of the Salween, Mekong, and Jinsha Rivers.
Being located at an altitude of 3,300 metres (10,800 ft), Dêqên lies in the transition between a subtropical highland climate (Köppen Cwb) and humid continental climate (Köppen Dwb), which is remarkable for its latitude. Although mean maximum temperatures, as in Lhasa and Shigatse, stay above freezing year-round, minima are below freezing from November to March, and temperatures average −1.4 °C (29.5 °F) in January, 13.6 °C (56.5 °F) in July, while the annual mean is 6.32 °C (43.4 °F). The town is nonetheless a little warmer during the winter than Shangri-La County to the east despite being slightly higher in elevation, due to its more southerly aspect. Rainfall is concentrated between June and September, accounting for nearly 60% of the annual total of 640 mm (25.2 in); snowfall is rare but still causes major transport problems in the winter. With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 29% in July to 62% in December, the county seat receives 1,989 hours of bright sunshine annually, with autumn and winter sunnier than spring and summer.
| Climate data for Dêqên County (1994–2020 normals, extremes 1971–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 13.9 (57.0) |
14.1 (57.4) |
17.2 (63.0) |
21.2 (70.2) |
22.9 (73.2) |
26.9 (80.4) |
26.9 (80.4) |
23.9 (75.0) |
23.8 (74.8) |
20.4 (68.7) |
15.8 (60.4) |
14.9 (58.8) |
26.9 (80.4) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 5.9 (42.6) |
6.8 (44.2) |
8.6 (47.5) |
11.8 (53.2) |
15.9 (60.6) |
19.2 (66.6) |
19.2 (66.6) |
19.1 (66.4) |
17.7 (63.9) |
14.3 (57.7) |
10.5 (50.9) |
7.4 (45.3) |
13.0 (55.5) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −1.5 (29.3) |
0.0 (32.0) |
2.3 (36.1) |
5.5 (41.9) |
9.6 (49.3) |
13.2 (55.8) |
13.7 (56.7) |
13.2 (55.8) |
11.8 (53.2) |
7.3 (45.1) |
2.7 (36.9) |
−0.5 (31.1) |
6.4 (43.6) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −6.4 (20.5) |
−4.7 (23.5) |
−1.9 (28.6) |
1.1 (34.0) |
5.0 (41.0) |
9.2 (48.6) |
10.5 (50.9) |
10.2 (50.4) |
8.7 (47.7) |
3.4 (38.1) |
−1.8 (28.8) |
−5.4 (22.3) |
2.3 (36.2) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −13.3 (8.1) |
−11.5 (11.3) |
−8.4 (16.9) |
−4.7 (23.5) |
−1.6 (29.1) |
2.7 (36.9) |
3.6 (38.5) |
4.0 (39.2) |
−0.1 (31.8) |
−2.8 (27.0) |
−11.5 (11.3) |
−12.0 (10.4) |
−13.3 (8.1) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 8.2 (0.32) |
16.7 (0.66) |
54.7 (2.15) |
62.8 (2.47) |
64.6 (2.54) |
61.5 (2.42) |
142.1 (5.59) |
116.2 (4.57) |
62.5 (2.46) |
43.4 (1.71) |
17.4 (0.69) |
4.0 (0.16) |
654.1 (25.74) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 6.4 | 9.3 | 14.4 | 14.2 | 13.4 | 15.3 | 22.3 | 21.3 | 14.5 | 9.4 | 4.9 | 2.3 | 147.7 |
| Average snowy days | 9.7 | 13.1 | 15.6 | 5.8 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 5.1 | 4.6 | 55.5 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 55 | 61 | 68 | 70 | 71 | 75 | 81 | 83 | 81 | 74 | 63 | 54 | 70 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 169.3 | 157.2 | 162.9 | 155.5 | 166.1 | 146.1 | 116.9 | 129.4 | 138.5 | 172.5 | 174.8 | 175.8 | 1,865 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 52 | 49 | 44 | 40 | 39 | 35 | 28 | 32 | 38 | 49 | 55 | 55 | 43 |
| Source 1: China Meteorological Administration[3][4] | |||||||||||||
| Source 2: Weather China[5] | |||||||||||||
Administrative divisions
Dêqên County has 2 towns, 4 townships and 2 ethnic townships.[6]
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
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| Towns | ||||||
| Dêqên Town (Shengping) |
升平镇 | Shēngpíng zhèn | བདེ་ཆེན་གྲོང་རྡལ། | bde chen grong rdal | 533422101 | |
| Gongzêra Town (Benzilan) |
奔子栏镇 | Bēnzǐlán zhèn | ཀོང་རྩེད་ར་གྲོང་རྡལ། | kong rtsed ra grong rdal | 533422102 | |
| Towns | ||||||
| Foshan Township | 佛山乡 | Fóshān xiāng | 53342220 | |||
| Yunling Township | 云岭乡 | Yúnlǐng xiāng | 53342221 | |||
| Yanmen Township | 燕门乡 | Yànmén xiāng | 53342223 | |||
| Yagra Township (Yala) |
羊拉乡 | Yánglā xiāng | གཡག་རྭ་ཤང་། | g.yag rwa shang | 53342226 | |
| Ethnic townships | ||||||
| Tangdoi Lisu Ethnic Township (Tuoding) |
拖顶傈僳族乡 | Tuōdǐng Lìsùzú xiāng | ཐང་སྟོད་ལི་སུའུ་རིགས་ཤང་། | thang stod li su'u rigs shang | 533422204 | |
| Zhag'o Lisu Ethnic Township (Xiaruo) |
霞若傈僳族乡 | Xiáruò Lìsùzú xiāng | ག་འོག་ལི་སུའུ་རིགས་ཤང་། | brag 'og li su'u rigs shang | 533422205 | |
Demographics
There are many Tibetans who live in Dêqên and they, compared to Tibetans in Tibet, have had longer-lasting trade relations with Han-Chinese and other ethnic minorities.[7]
Transportation
Deqin can be reached by many daily buses traveling North from Kunming - Dali - Lijiang - Zhongdian - Deqin.
The route is a very scenic and most of it is a newly built highway apart from the Zhongdian to Deqin section which is a winding mountain road through the scenic North Yunnan/Tibetan mountains.
See also
- Bamê, a village in Foshan, Dêqên County
- Meili Snow Mountains.
References
- Galipeau, Brendan A. "Socio-Ecological Vulnerability in a Tibetan Village on the Lancang River, China" (Archive) (master's thesis). Oregon State University. July 6, 2012.
Reference notes
- "迪庆州第七次全国人口普查主要数据公报" (in Chinese). Government of Dêqên Prefecture. 2021-05-27.
- 德钦城市介绍 (in Simplified Chinese). Weather China. Retrieved 2011-11-14.
- 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
- 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
- 德钦 - 气象数据 -中国天气网 (in Chinese). Weather China. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
- "国家统计局" (in Chinese). National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
- Galipeau, p. 7 (PDF 22/148).
- Galipeau, p. 6 (PDF 21/148).
- Galipeau, p. 5 (PDF 20/148).
External links
Deqin travel guide from Wikivoyage- Deqin County Official Website