County in Sichuan, China
Dawu County (Tibetan : རྟའུ་རྫོང་། ), also written Tawu County or Daofu County (Chinese : 道孚县 ), is a county of northwestern Sichuan Province , China. It is under the administration of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture , and as of 2001[update] , had a population of 46,900 residing in an area of 7,546 square kilometres (2,914 sq mi). By road it is 219 km (136 mi) from Kangding , the prefectural seat, and 585 km (364 mi) from Chengdu , the provincial capital. It borders the counties of Xinlong to the west, Kangding and Yajiang to the south, and Jinchuan and Zamtang of Ngawa Prefecture as well as Luhuo to the north.
In January 1981 it was struck by an earthquake .
Administrative divisions
Dawu County is divided into 7 towns and 12 townships :
Name
Simplified Chinese
Hanyu Pinyin
Tibetan
Wylie
Administrative division code
Towns
Xêqu Town (Xianshui)
鲜水镇
Xiānshuǐ Zhèn
ཤེལ་ཆུ་གྲོང་རྡལ།
shel chu grong rdal
513326100
Pamai Town (Bamei)
八美镇
Bāměi Zhèn
བ་སྨད་གྲོང་རྡལ།
ba smad grong rdal
513326101
Xagzig Town (Yazhuo)
亚卓镇
Yàzhuó Zhèn
བཞག་བརྩིགས་གྲོང་རྡལ།
bzhag brtsigs grong rdal
513326102
Yukar Town (Yuke)
玉科镇
Yùkē Zhèn
གཡུ་མཁར་གྲོང་རྡལ
g.yu mkhar grong rdal
513326104
Zhungnyi Town (Zhongni)
仲尼镇
Zhòngní Zhèn
ཀྲུང་ཉི་གྲོང་རྡལ།
krung nyi grong rdal
513326105
Gartar Town (Taining)
泰宁镇
Tàiníng Zhèn
མགར་ཐར་གྲོང་རྡལ།
mgar thar grong rdal
513326106
Waxab Town (Wari)
瓦日镇
Wǎrì Zhèn
དབའ་ཞབས་གྲོང་རྡལ།
dba' zhabs grong rdal
513326107
Townships
Masur Township (Mazi)
麻孜乡
Mázī Xiāng
མ་ཟུར་ཤང་།
ma zur shang
513326201
Kangsar Township (Kongse)
孔色乡
Kǒngsè Xiāng
ཁང་གསར་ཤང་།
khang gsar shang
513326202
Kugqa Township (Geka)
葛卡乡
Gěkǎ Xiāng
ཁུག་ཆ་ཤང་།
khug cha shang
513326203
Zhagtog Township (Zhatuo)
扎拖乡
Zhātuō Xiāng
བྲག་ཐོག་ཤང་།
brag thog shang
513326207
Qatang Township (Xiatuo)
下拖乡
Xiàtuō Xiāng
བྱ་ཐང་ཤང་།
bya thang shang
513326208
Mugri Township (Muru)
木茹乡
Mùrú Xiāng
སྨུག་རི་ཤང་།
smug ri shang
513326210
Jaggang Township (Jiasikong)
甲斯孔乡
Jiǎsīkǒng Xiāng
ལྕགས་སྐང་ཤང་།
lcags skang shang
513326211
Qumar Township (Qimei)
七美乡
Qīměi Xiāng
ཆུ་དམར་ཤང་།
chu dmar shang
513326213
Yungoin Township (Yi'ngoi, Yin'en)
银恩乡
Yín'ēn Xiāng
གཡུ་སྔོན་ཤང་།
g.yu sngon shang
513326214
Lungdain Township (Longdeng)
龙灯乡
Lóngdēng Xiāng
ལུང་བསྟན་ཡུལ།
lung bstan yul
513326216
Sêrka Township (Seka)
色卡乡
Sèkǎ Xiāng
གསེར་ཁ་ཤང་།
gser kha shang
513326218
Xarchong Township (Shachong)
沙冲乡
Shāchōng Xiāng
ཤར་གྲོང་ཤང་།
shar grong shang
513326219
Climate
Climate data for Dawu, elevation 3,009 m (9,872 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010)
Month
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
Record high °C (°F)
22.4 (72.3)
25.9 (78.6)
29.9 (85.8)
28.8 (83.8)
31.6 (88.9)
31.2 (88.2)
33.4 (92.1)
30.8 (87.4)
30.3 (86.5)
27.5 (81.5)
22.9 (73.2)
22.0 (71.6)
33.4 (92.1)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)
10.4 (50.7)
12.8 (55.0)
15.5 (59.9)
18.4 (65.1)
21.4 (70.5)
23.0 (73.4)
24.2 (75.6)
24.3 (75.7)
22.0 (71.6)
18.1 (64.6)
14.3 (57.7)
10.8 (51.4)
17.9 (64.3)
Daily mean °C (°F)
−1.4 (29.5)
2.0 (35.6)
5.7 (42.3)
9.3 (48.7)
12.8 (55.0)
15.1 (59.2)
16.2 (61.2)
16.0 (60.8)
13.6 (56.5)
8.9 (48.0)
3.1 (37.6)
−1.2 (29.8)
8.3 (47.0)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)
−9.5 (14.9)
−6.2 (20.8)
−2.0 (28.4)
2.0 (35.6)
6.1 (43.0)
9.8 (49.6)
11.2 (52.2)
10.7 (51.3)
8.6 (47.5)
3.1 (37.6)
−4.1 (24.6)
−8.8 (16.2)
1.7 (35.1)
Record low °C (°F)
−21.7 (−7.1)
−14.7 (5.5)
−12.1 (10.2)
−6.1 (21.0)
−3.7 (25.3)
0.8 (33.4)
2.1 (35.8)
1.9 (35.4)
−1.0 (30.2)
−6.4 (20.5)
−12.4 (9.7)
−24 (−11)
−24 (−11)
Average precipitation mm (inches)
2.2 (0.09)
4.0 (0.16)
11.7 (0.46)
35.4 (1.39)
67.9 (2.67)
147.9 (5.82)
126.6 (4.98)
97.5 (3.84)
110.8 (4.36)
40.1 (1.58)
5.0 (0.20)
1.3 (0.05)
650.4 (25.6)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm)
2.0
3.4
7.8
13.5
18.0
23.2
20.1
17.7
18.8
13.6
3.8
1.5
143.4
Average snowy days
3.7
5.4
6.3
1.8
0.2
0
0
0
0
0.3
2.9
2.6
23.2
Average relative humidity (%)
45
43
47
52
57
68
70
69
71
67
56
50
58
Mean monthly sunshine hours
203.7
183.3
205.4
205.0
211.4
180.2
185.1
191.6
182.4
193.2
201.4
214.9
2,357.6
Percent possible sunshine
63
58
55
53
50
43
43
47
50
55
64
69
54
Source: China Meteorological Administration [ 2] [ 3]
Climate data for Bamei Town (1991–2018 normals)
Month
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)
5.4 (41.7)
8.2 (46.8)
10.6 (51.1)
13.3 (55.9)
16.3 (61.3)
17.0 (62.6)
18.9 (66.0)
18.7 (65.7)
16.6 (61.9)
12.6 (54.7)
9.2 (48.6)
6.1 (43.0)
12.7 (54.9)
Daily mean °C (°F)
−4.1 (24.6)
−0.9 (30.4)
2.2 (36.0)
5.7 (42.3)
9.4 (48.9)
11.3 (52.3)
13.1 (55.6)
12.5 (54.5)
10.5 (50.9)
5.9 (42.6)
0.9 (33.6)
−3.2 (26.2)
5.3 (41.5)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)
−13.6 (7.5)
−10.0 (14.0)
−6.1 (21.0)
−1.9 (28.6)
2.5 (36.5)
5.5 (41.9)
7.3 (45.1)
6.3 (43.3)
4.5 (40.1)
−0.7 (30.7)
−7.5 (18.5)
−12.5 (9.5)
−2.2 (28.1)
Average precipitation mm (inches)
1.0 (0.04)
4.1 (0.16)
13.1 (0.52)
33.0 (1.30)
74.9 (2.95)
149.1 (5.87)
129.5 (5.10)
112.6 (4.43)
110.9 (4.37)
45.1 (1.78)
6.1 (0.24)
1.9 (0.07)
681.3 (26.83)
Source: Baidu[ 4]
References
External links
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for
Daofu .
See this link for a book-length study of a Tibetan village in Dawu County:
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