Huangyuan County
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.
Huangyuan
湟源县 | |
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Location of Huangyan | |
  Huangyuan Location of the seat in Qinghai | |
| Coordinates: 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
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
| Climate data for Huangyuan (2009–2020 normals) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °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) |
| Average low °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
- 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.
References
- Dorje, Gyurme. (1999). Footprint Tibet Handbook with Bhutan. (2nd Ed.) Footprint Handbooks, Bath, England. ISBN 0-8442-2190-2.
Footnotes
- 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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