Heishui County
Appearance
Heishui County
黑水县 • ཁྲོ་ཆུ་རྫོང་། • Vvlukvua Choqu | |
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![]() Location of Heishui County (light red) in Aba (yellow) and Sichuan (light gray) | |
Coordinates: 32°14′07″N 103°03′20″E / 32.23528°N 103.05556°E | |
Country | China |
Province | Sichuan |
Autonomous prefecture | Ngawa |
County seat | Doka (Luhua) |
Area | |
• Total | 4,356 km2 (1,682 sq mi) |
Elevation | 3,544 m (11,627 ft) |
Population (2020)[2] | |
• Total | 44,564 |
• Density | 10/km2 (26/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Website | www |
Heishui County | |||||||
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Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 黑水县 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 黑水縣 | ||||||
Literal meaning | black water | ||||||
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Tibetan name | |||||||
Tibetan | ཁྲོ་ཆུ་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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Qiang name | |||||||
Qiang | Vvlukvua |
Heishui County (Chinese: 黑水县; Tibetan: ཁྲོ་ཆུ་རྫོང་།; Qiang: Vvlukvua) is a county in the north of Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture.[3] The county has an area of 1,682 square miles (4,356 km2) and its average elevation is 11,627 feet (3,544 m).[1] As of 2016, the county has a population of 61,744.[4]
Administrative divisions
[edit]Heishui County has jurisdiction over 8 towns and 7 townships:[4]
Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
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Towns | ||||||
Doka Town (Luhua) |
芦花镇 | Lúhuā Zhèn | རྡོ་ཁ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | rdo kha grong rdal | 513228100 | |
Kalung Town (Luhua) |
卡龙镇 | Lúhuā Zhèn | མཁའ་ལུང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | mkhav lung grong rdal | 513228101 | |
Sêrgu Town (Ser'ergu) |
色尔古镇 | Sè'ěrgǔ Zhèn | གསེར་རྒུ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | gser rgu grong rdal | 513228102 | |
Kixiu Town (Xi'er) |
西尔镇 | Xī'ěr Zhèn | གིས་གཤིའུ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | gis gshivu grong rdal | 513228103 | |
Musu Town | 木苏镇 | Mùsū Zhèn | མུ་སུ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | mu su grong rdal | 513228104 | |
Sadoi Town (Shashiduo) |
沙石多镇 | Shāshíduō Zhèn | ས་སྟོད་གྲོང་རྡལ། | sa stod grong rdal | 513228105 | |
Jimulê Town (Zhimulin) |
知木林镇 | Zhīmùlín Zhèn | ཅི་མུ་ལེའི་གྲོང་རྡལ། | ci mu levi grong rdal | 513228106 | |
Jawu Town (Zhawo) |
扎窝镇 | Zhāwō Zhèn | ཅ་བུ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | ca bu grong rdal | 513228107 | |
Townships | ||||||
Qibirliangzi Township (Waboliangzi) |
瓦钵梁子乡 | Wǎbōliángzǐ Xiāng | ཆི་པིར་ལིའང་ཙི་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | chi pir livang tsi yul tsho | 513228204 | |
Diru Township (Shidiaolou) |
石碉楼乡 | Shídiāolóu Xiāng | སྟི་རུ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | sti ru yul tsho | 513228206 | |
Lonbag Township (Longba) |
龙坝乡 | Lóngbà Xiāng | གློ་འབག་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | glo vbag yul tsho | 513228207 | |
Zhido Township (Luoduo) |
洛多乡 | Luòduō Xiāng | འདྲི་ཏོ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | vdri to yul tsho | 513228208 | |
Gaku Township (Weigu) |
维古乡 | Wéigǔ Xiāng | དགའ་གུ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | dgav gu yul tsho | 513228210 | |
Qunag Township (Qinglang) |
晴朗乡 | Qínglǎng Xiāng | ཆུ་ནག་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | chu nag yul tsho | 513228213 | |
Cibir Township (Ciba) |
慈坝乡 | Cíbà Xiāng | ཚི་པིར་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | tshi pir yul tsho | 513228214 |
Climate
[edit]Climate data for Heishui, elevation 2,400 m (7,900 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 21.1 (70.0) |
25.3 (77.5) |
28.6 (83.5) |
33.0 (91.4) |
31.8 (89.2) |
31.5 (88.7) |
33.4 (92.1) |
32.8 (91.0) |
31.2 (88.2) |
26.8 (80.2) |
23.7 (74.7) |
18.7 (65.7) |
33.4 (92.1) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 8.0 (46.4) |
11.7 (53.1) |
15.5 (59.9) |
19.4 (66.9) |
21.6 (70.9) |
23.0 (73.4) |
25.2 (77.4) |
25.4 (77.7) |
21.9 (71.4) |
17.3 (63.1) |
13.6 (56.5) |
9.2 (48.6) |
17.7 (63.8) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | −0.5 (31.1) |
2.8 (37.0) |
6.6 (43.9) |
10.5 (50.9) |
13.1 (55.6) |
15.5 (59.9) |
17.5 (63.5) |
17.4 (63.3) |
14.4 (57.9) |
9.8 (49.6) |
4.8 (40.6) |
0.4 (32.7) |
9.4 (48.8) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −6.1 (21.0) |
−3.3 (26.1) |
0.4 (32.7) |
4.1 (39.4) |
7.5 (45.5) |
10.9 (51.6) |
12.6 (54.7) |
12.4 (54.3) |
10.1 (50.2) |
5.5 (41.9) |
−0.5 (31.1) |
−5.0 (23.0) |
4.1 (39.3) |
Record low °C (°F) | −13.9 (7.0) |
−11.7 (10.9) |
−11.0 (12.2) |
−2.6 (27.3) |
−0.4 (31.3) |
3.8 (38.8) |
4.7 (40.5) |
3.4 (38.1) |
0.6 (33.1) |
−4.3 (24.3) |
−7.8 (18.0) |
−12.5 (9.5) |
−13.9 (7.0) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 6.0 (0.24) |
10.0 (0.39) |
35.2 (1.39) |
68.6 (2.70) |
134.9 (5.31) |
155.0 (6.10) |
116.7 (4.59) |
91.6 (3.61) |
114.5 (4.51) |
83.9 (3.30) |
17.3 (0.68) |
4.4 (0.17) |
838.1 (32.99) |
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 5.1 | 6.7 | 12.4 | 16.2 | 21.6 | 22.8 | 18.3 | 16.3 | 18.8 | 18.2 | 6.7 | 3.2 | 166.3 |
Average snowy days | 8.6 | 9.7 | 7.3 | 1.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 2.9 | 5.2 | 35.4 |
Average relative humidity (%) | 52 | 51 | 55 | 58 | 68 | 75 | 75 | 74 | 76 | 74 | 62 | 55 | 65 |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 168.4 | 151.4 | 158.7 | 167.4 | 168.5 | 141.2 | 161.5 | 161.8 | 135.7 | 140.1 | 158.5 | 171.1 | 1,884.3 |
Percent possible sunshine | 53 | 48 | 42 | 43 | 39 | 33 | 37 | 40 | 37 | 40 | 51 | 55 | 43 |
Source: China Meteorological Administration[5][6] |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Li, Xiguang (2003-01-10). "Prologue". 找故事的艺术——在长征路上体味清华新闻学 [The Art of Storytelling: Experience Tsinghua News on the Long March] (in Chinese). Tsinghua University Press (published 2003-01-01). p. 18. ISBN 9787302062165. Archived from the original on 2017-08-12. Retrieved 2017-08-11.
- ^ "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]
- ^ 2016年统计用区划代码 [Statistical zoning code, 2016 (Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture)]. National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China (in Chinese). National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China. 2016. Archived from the original on 2017-08-12. Retrieved 2017-08-11.
- ^ a b Han, Fei; Li, Yaqiong, eds. (2016-03-10). 黑水县情 [Heishui County Overview]. Heishui County Portal (in Chinese). Heishui County Government. Archived from the original on 2017-08-12. Retrieved 2017-08-11.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
- ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.