Hongyuan County

Hongyuan County 红原县 • སྐ་ཁོག་རྫོང་། Gakog, Gaqu, Hungyoin
County
Five Flowers Lake
Location of Hongyuan County (red) in Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan
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Coordinates: 32°52′35″N 102°32′24″E
Country	China
Province	Sichuan
Autonomous prefecture	Ngawa
County seat	Kyungqu
Area
• Total	8,398 km^2 (3,242 sq mi)
Population  (2020)[1]
• Total	46,644
• Density	5.6/km^2 (14/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Website	www.hongyuan.gov.cn

Hongyuan County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	红原县
Traditional Chinese	紅原縣
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Hóngyuán Xiàn Yue: Cantonese Jyutping hung^4jyun^4 jyun^2
Tibetan name
Tibetan	རྐ་ཁོག་རྫོང་། སྐ་ཆུ་རྫོང་། ཧུང་ཡོན་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions Wylie rka khog rdzong or rka chu rdzong or hung yon rdzong Tibetan Pinyin Gakog Zong or Gaqu Zong or Hungyoin Zong

Gakog (Hongyuan) County (Tibetan: སྐ་ཆུ་རྫོང་། or སྐ་ཁོག་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 红原县) is a county in the north of Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. There is a river called Ka Chu/Gaqu (སྐ་ཆུ།) in the area and kog means "valley" or "area"; thus it means the area of the Ga River.^[2]

Aerial panorama of Waqie Talin 瓦切塔林 in Hongyuan county.

This is the only county under the Prefecture with entirely yak herding pastoralists. The average altitude above the sea level is 3,600 m (11,800 ft). About 8,398 square meter and about 40,000 people reside (2004) mostly Amdo Tibetan. The language is spoken is one of the most conservative dialect among the Amdo Tibetan varieties. The county seat is Kyungqu [zh] (a.k.a. Khyungchu).

Southwest University for Nationalities maintains the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Ecological Environmental Protection and Advanced Technology for Animal Husbandry in Hongyuan County.^[3]

The country is served by Aba Hongyuan Airport.

Climate

Hongyuan has a Subarctic Climate (Köppen Dwc) With short, mild summers and cold winters.(but not as cold as subarctic climates at higher latitudes). It is affected by the Asian Monsoon.

Climate data for Hongyuan, elevation 3,492 m (11,457 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)	15.4 (59.7)	16.6 (61.9)	19.6 (67.3)	23.0 (73.4)	24.6 (76.3)	26.0 (78.8)	25.7 (78.3)	25.6 (78.1)	24.9 (76.8)	23.1 (73.6)	15.4 (59.7)	14.4 (57.9)	26.0 (78.8)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	2.7 (36.9)	4.7 (40.5)	7.2 (45.0)	10.9 (51.6)	13.8 (56.8)	16.0 (60.8)	18.4 (65.1)	18.2 (64.8)	15.5 (59.9)	10.9 (51.6)	7.0 (44.6)	3.7 (38.7)	10.8 (51.4)
Daily mean °C (°F)	−8.8 (16.2)	−5.6 (21.9)	−1.3 (29.7)	2.8 (37.0)	6.4 (43.5)	9.7 (49.5)	11.5 (52.7)	10.8 (51.4)	7.9 (46.2)	3.0 (37.4)	−2.7 (27.1)	−7.6 (18.3)	2.2 (35.9)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	−18.5 (−1.3)	−14.3 (6.3)	−7.7 (18.1)	−3.5 (25.7)	0.4 (32.7)	4.6 (40.3)	5.8 (42.4)	4.8 (40.6)	2.5 (36.5)	−2.1 (28.2)	−9.5 (14.9)	−16.2 (2.8)	−4.5 (23.9)
Record low °C (°F)	−36.0 (−32.8)	−30.2 (−22.4)	−26.3 (−15.3)	−14.9 (5.2)	−14.8 (5.4)	−4.4 (24.1)	−2.6 (27.3)	−4.9 (23.2)	−6.7 (19.9)	−15.3 (4.5)	−26.6 (−15.9)	−30.7 (−23.3)	−36.0 (−32.8)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	7.3 (0.29)	11.0 (0.43)	26.5 (1.04)	50.3 (1.98)	107.6 (4.24)	131.0 (5.16)	122.1 (4.81)	109.3 (4.30)	111.6 (4.39)	70.8 (2.79)	11.7 (0.46)	3.9 (0.15)	763.1 (30.04)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm)	5.9	8.0	12.6	15.9	21.2	21.3	18.8	17.2	19.5	17.9	6.8	4.1	169.2
Average snowy days	8.1	10.6	16.8	16.0	8.6	1.6	0.2	0.4	2.3	13.9	9.0	5.7	93.2
Average relative humidity (%)	58	59	65	68	72	75	76	77	79	77	66	59	69
Mean monthly sunshine hours	215.4	186.6	199.0	203.1	196.1	165.5	201.5	206.6	168.9	171.4	210.9	225.7	2,350.7
Percent possible sunshine	68	60	53	52	46	39	47	51	46	49	68	73	54
Source: China Meteorological Administration[4][5]

Administrative divisions

Hongyuan County has 6 townships and 4 townships:

Name	Simplified Chinese	Hanyu Pinyin	Tibetan	Wylie	Administrative division code
Towns
Kyungqu Town (Khyungchu, Qiongxi)	邛溪镇	Qióngxī Zhèn	ཁྱུང་མཆུ་གྲོང་རྡལ།	khyung mchu grong rdal	513233100
Da'gyailing Town (Sajinse, Shuajingsi)	刷经寺镇	Shuājīngsì Zhèn	ལྟ་རྒྱལ་གླིང་གྲོང་རྡལ།	lta rgyal gling grong rdal	513233101
Waqên Town (Waqie)	瓦切镇	Wǎqiē Zhèn	སྦྲ་ཆེན་གྲོང་རྡལ།	sbra chen grong rdal	513233102
Amqog Town (Anqog, Anqu)	安曲镇	Ānqǔ Zhèn	ཨ་མཆོག་གྲོང་རྡལ།	a mchog grong rdal	513233103
Sêrdêu Town (Sêrdiu, Sedi)	色地镇	Sèdì Zhèn	གསེར་རྡེའུ་གྲོང་རྡལ།	gser rde'u grong rdal	513233104
Lungsi Town (Longriba, Longri)	龙日镇	Lòngrì Zhèn	ལུང་ཟི་གྲོང་རྡལ།	lung zi grong rdal	513233105
Townships
Gyarong Township (Jiangrong)	江茸乡	Jiāngróng Xiāng	སྐྱ་རོང་ཡུལ་ཚོ།	skya rong yul tsho	513233202
Carima Township (Cha'erma)	查尔玛乡	Chá'ěrmǎ Xiāng	ཚ་རི་མ་ཡུལ་ཚོ།	tsha ri ma yul tsho	513233203
Amoi Township (Amu)	阿木乡	Āmù Xiāng	ཨ་མོའི་ཡུལ་ཚོ།	a mo'i yul tsho	513233205
Mêwa Township (Maiwa)	麦洼乡	Màiwā Xiāng	རྨེ་བ་ཡུལ་ཚོ།	rme ba yul tsho	513233207

References

1. "阿坝州第七次全国人口普查公报第二号——县（市）人口情况" (in Chinese). Government of Ngawa Prefecture. 2021-06-11.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
2. "Kakhok | Shanti Knowledge Maps". mandala.shanti.virginia.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-18.
3. "About Us Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine." Southwest University for Nationalities. Retrieved on November 16, 2015.
4. 1991-2020 normals "Climate averages from 1991 to 2020". China Meteorological Administration. 2023-04-20. Archived from the original on 2023-04-17.
5. 1981-2010 extremes 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 14 April 2023.