County in Sichuan, China
Light green -Yi. Red -Tibetan.
Gyaisi County (Tibetan : བརྒྱད་ཟིལ། / བརྒྱད་ཟུར། , Wylie : brgyad zil / brgyad zur ), also Jiulong County (Chinese : 九龙县 ); is a county located in southeastern Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture , Sichuan province, China . With a population of 52 thousand, mainly Tibetans , Hans , and Yis .
Administrative divisions
Gyaisi County contains 9 towns , 4 townships , and 3 ethnic townships :
Name
Simplified Chinese
Hanyu Pinyin
Tibetan
Wylie
Yi
Romanized Yi
Administrative division code
Towns
Gor Town (Ga'er)
呷尔镇
Gā'ěr Zhèn
སྒོར་གྲོང་རྡལ།
sgor grong rdal
513324100
Yandai Town (Yaindain)
烟袋镇
Yāndài Zhèn
ཡན་ཏན་ཀྲེན།
yan tan kren
513324101
Sayag Town (Sanya)
三垭镇
Sānyā Zhèn
ས་ཡག་གྲོང་རྡལ།
sa yag grong rdal
513324102
Qêwalung Town (Xuewalong)
雪洼龙镇
Xuěwālóng Zhèn
བྱེ་བ་ལུང་གྲོང་རྡལ།
bye ba lung grong rdal
513324103
Mukyü Town (Wanba)
湾坝镇
Wānbà Zhèn
མུ་ཁྱུད་གྲོང་རྡལ།
mu khyud grong rdal
513324104
Tanggo Town (Tanggu)
汤古镇
Tānggǔ Zhèn
ཐང་མགོ་གྲོང་རྡལ།
thang mgo grong rdal
513324105
Ulagqoin Town (Wulaxi)
乌拉溪镇
Wūlāxī Zhèn
འུ་ལག་བྱོན་གྲོང་རྡལ།
'u lag byon grong rdal
513324106
Kardo Town (Kuiduo)
魁多镇
Kuíduō Zhèn
འཁར་རྡོ་གྲོང་རྡལ།
'khar rdo grong rdal
513324107
Laqu Town (Naiqu)
乃渠镇
Nǎiqú Zhèn
ལ་ཆུ་གྲོང་རྡལ།
la chu grong rdal
513324108
Townships
Sangngagrong Township (Sanyanlong)
三岩龙乡
Sānyánlóng Xiāng
གསང་སྔགས་རོང་ཤང་།
gsang sngags rong shang
513324202
Sangtoin Township (Shangtuan)
上团乡
Shàngtuán Xiāng
སང་ཐོན་ཤང་།
sang thon shang
513324203
Baworong Township (Ba'obrong, Bawolung)
八窝龙乡
Bāwōlóng Xiāng
དཔའ་བོ་རོང་ཤང་།
dpa' bo rong shang
513324204
Hurba Township (Hongba)
洪坝乡
Hóngbà Xiāng
ཧུར་པ་ཤང་།
hur pa shang
513324216
Ethnic townships
Zylur Yi Ethnic Township (Zi'er)
子耳彝族乡
Zǐ'ěr Yízú Xiāng
ꊪꇓꆈꌠꑣ
zy lur nuo su xie
513324209
Xuoji Yi Ethnic Township (Xiaojin)
小金彝族乡
Xiǎojīn Yízú Xiāng
ꑦꏢꆈꌠꑣ
xuo ji nuo su xie
513324212
Dolop Yi Ethnic Township (Duoluo)
朵洛彝族乡
Duǒluò Yízú Xiāng
ꄏꇊꆈꌠꑣ
do lop nuo su xie
513324213
Geography and climate
Due to its elevation, Jiulong County has a subtropical highland climate (Köppen Cwb ), with strong monsoonal influences; winters are frosty and summers warm with frequent rain. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from 1.6 °C (34.9 °F) in December and January to 15.3 °C (59.5 °F) in July, while the annual mean is 9.1 °C (48.4 °F). Over 75% of the annual precipitation of 922.5 mm (36.3 in) occurs from June through September. With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 32% in July to 58% in January, the county seat receives 1,983 hours of bright sunshine annually. Diurnal temperature variation is large, averaging 14.2 °C (25.6 °F) annually.
Climate data for Jiulong, elevation 2,925 m (9,596 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1971–2010)
Month
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Year
Record high °C (°F)
23.5 (74.3)
25.3 (77.5)
26.4 (79.5)
28.0 (82.4)
31.2 (88.2)
31.7 (89.1)
30.2 (86.4)
29.3 (84.7)
29.1 (84.4)
25.1 (77.2)
22.6 (72.7)
20.5 (68.9)
31.7 (89.1)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)
12.2 (54.0)
14.2 (57.6)
16.9 (62.4)
19.5 (67.1)
21.4 (70.5)
21.9 (71.4)
21.8 (71.2)
21.7 (71.1)
20.0 (68.0)
17.9 (64.2)
15.0 (59.0)
12.4 (54.3)
17.9 (64.2)
Daily mean °C (°F)
1.8 (35.2)
4.2 (39.6)
7.2 (45.0)
10.0 (50.0)
13.1 (55.6)
15.0 (59.0)
15.4 (59.7)
15.2 (59.4)
13.7 (56.7)
10.4 (50.7)
5.4 (41.7)
2.0 (35.6)
9.5 (49.0)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)
−5.5 (22.1)
−3.4 (25.9)
−0.3 (31.5)
2.9 (37.2)
7.1 (44.8)
10.7 (51.3)
11.7 (53.1)
11.4 (52.5)
10.0 (50.0)
5.9 (42.6)
−0.6 (30.9)
−4.7 (23.5)
3.8 (38.8)
Record low °C (°F)
−15.6 (3.9)
−13.1 (8.4)
−9.4 (15.1)
−5.6 (21.9)
−2.0 (28.4)
2.6 (36.7)
3.5 (38.3)
2.5 (36.5)
0.0 (32.0)
−4.8 (23.4)
−10.5 (13.1)
−14.4 (6.1)
−15.6 (3.9)
Average precipitation mm (inches)
2.8 (0.11)
4.3 (0.17)
20.3 (0.80)
42.3 (1.67)
86.7 (3.41)
203.4 (8.01)
190.0 (7.48)
150.7 (5.93)
149.5 (5.89)
51.2 (2.02)
12.0 (0.47)
2.1 (0.08)
915.3 (36.04)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm)
2.2
3.1
8.5
13.2
18.0
24.4
25.3
23.3
22.9
12.5
4.9
1.9
160.2
Average snowy days
5.5
6.1
4.9
1.6
0.3
0
0
0
0.1
0.4
2.4
3.5
24.8
Average relative humidity (%)
43
41
46
54
62
75
79
78
78
72
61
51
62
Mean monthly sunshine hours
186.0
176.0
189.0
185.6
181.9
145.3
132.1
134.5
133.0
163.1
176.1
183.7
1,986.3
Percent possible sunshine
57
55
51
48
43
35
31
33
36
46
55
58
46
Source 1: China Meteorological Administration [2] [3]
Source 2: Weather China[4]
References
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