County in Gansu, China
Zhugqu County [ 2] [ 3] Tibetan : འབྲུག་ཆུ་རྫོང་། ), Zhugchu [ 3] Zhouqu (Chinese : 舟曲县 ) is a county in the eastern extremity of the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the south of Gansu Province, China , with the Bailong River flowing through its confines; it borders Sichuan province to the south. In 2010 its population was 134,000 people.[ 4]
The word "Zhugqu" derived from the Tibetan name of Bailong River.[ 5]
2010 mudslide
On 8 August 2010, deadly mudflows caused by torrential rain struck the county and killed at least 1,471 people.[ 4] [ 6] deforestation and the construction of dams for hydro-electricity in the area.[ 7]
According to historical records, Chengguan Town has been struck by 11 "devastating" mudflows since 1823.[ 7]
Administrative divisions
Zhouqu County is divided to 15 towns and 4 townships .[ 8]
Name
Simplified Chinese
Hanyu Pinyin
Tibetan
Wylie
Administrative division code
Towns
Chengguan Town 城关镇 Liǔlín Zhèn ཁྲེན་ཀོན་གྲོང་རྡལ།
khren kon grong rdal 623023100
Dachuan Town 大川镇 Dàchuān Zhèn ཏ་ཁྲོན་གྲོང་རྡལ།
ta khron grong rdal 623023101
Fengdie Town 峰迭镇 Fēngdié Zhèn སྦུན་ཏིའེ་གྲོང་རྡལ།
sbun tiʼe grong rdal 623023102
Luzê Town 立节镇 Lìjié Zhèn གླུ་རྩེད་གྲོང་རྡལ།
glu rtsed grong rdal 623023103
Dongshan Town 东山镇 Dōngshān Zhèn ཏུང་ཧྲན་གྲོང་རྡལ།
tung hran grong rdal 623023104
Qugarna Town 曲告纳镇 Qūgàonà Zhèn ཆུ་གར་ན་གྲོང་རྡལ།
chu gar na grong rdal 623023105
Poiyü Town 博峪镇 Bóyù Zhèn བོད་ཡུལ་གྲོང་རྡལ།
bod yul grong rdal 623023106
Bazong Town 巴藏镇 Bāzàng Zhèn སྦྲ་རྫོང་གྲོང་རྡལ།
sbra rdzong grong rdal 623023107
Hanban Town 憨班镇 Hānbān Zhèn ཧན་པན་གྲོང་རྡལ།
han pan grong rdal 623023108
Pingding Town 坪定镇 Píngdìng Zhèn ཕིན་ཏིང་གྲོང་རྡལ།
phin ting grong rdal 623023109
Goye Town 果耶镇 Guǒyē Zhèn སྒོ་གཡས་གྲོང་རྡལ།
sgo g.yas grong rdal 623023110
Wuping Town 武坪镇 Wǔpíng Zhèn ཝུའུ་ཕིན་གྲོང་རྡལ།
wuʼu phin grong rdal 623023111
Dagyü Town 大峪镇 Dàyù Zhèn སྟག་ཡུལ་གྲོང་རྡལ།
stag yul grong rdal 623023112
Jiangpan Town 江盘镇 Jiāngpán Zhèn ཅང་ཕན་གྲོང་རྡལ།
cang phan grong rdal 623023113
Gongba Town
拱坝镇 Gǒngbà Zhèn ཀོང་པ་གྲོང་རྡལ།
kong pa grong rdal 623023114
Townships
Quwar Township 曲瓦乡 Qūwǎ Xiāng ཆུ་བར་ཤང་།
chu bar shang 623023200
Nanyu Township 南峪乡 Nányù Xiāng ནན་ཡུས་ཤང་།
nan yus shang 623023208
Baleng Township 八楞乡 Bāléng Xiāng པ་ལེང་ཤང་།
pa leng shang 623023210
Chagang Township 插岗乡 Chāgǎng Xiāng ཁྲ་ཀང་ཤང་།
khra kang shang 623023212
Climate
Climate data for Zhouqu, elevation 1,329 m (4,360 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)
16.5
25.3
29.0
32.9
35.3
38.2
37.1
38.0
34.7
27.9
22.9
20.6
38.2
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)
6.9
10.6
15.7
21.4
25.0
28.1
30.1
29.2
24.1
18.6
13.7
8.3
19.3
Daily mean °C (°F)
2.1
5.5
10.1
15.1
18.6
21.9
24.1
23.4
19.0
13.9
8.5
3.0
13.8
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)
−1.7
1.4
5.7
10.2
13.7
17.2
19.6
19.1
15.5
10.6
4.8
−0.8
9.6
Record low °C (°F)
−9.0
−6.5
−4.6
−0.5
3.7
9.3
13.5
11.8
7.3
0.0
−4.5
−9.6
−9.6
Average precipitation mm (inches)
1.9
3.4
14.4
32.5
57.3
64.7
70.5
72.0
59.2
47.9
6.1
0.5
430.4
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm)
2.7
3.2
8.5
11.5
15.2
14.5
12.7
12.5
13.5
13.8
4.5
1.1
113.7
Average snowy days
5.4
3.5
1.0
0.1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.6
2.2
12.8
Average relative humidity (%)
53
52
53
54
58
60
63
65
70
71
63
55
60
Mean monthly sunshine hours
135.8
121.6
143.8
168.7
178.7
163.3
184.4
180.5
117.0
112.6
126.5
143.0
1,775.9
Percent possible sunshine
43
39
38
43
41
38
42
44
32
32
41
47
40
Source: China Meteorological Administration [ 9] [ 10]
See also
References
^ "甘南州第七次全国人口普查公报" (in Chinese). Government of Gannan Prefecture. 27 May 2021.^ Fang, Aiqing (2 August 2018). "Answering a higher call" . China Daily ^ a b 陈观胜 [Chen Guansheng]; 安才旦 [An Caidan] (2004). 《汉英藏对照常见藏语人名地名词典》 [Dictionary of Common Tibetan Personal and Place Names ]. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press . p. 372. ISBN 7-119-03497-9 ^ a b Wivell, David (13 August 2010). "Relentless rain piles on misery in China" . NBC News . Associated Press (AP). Retrieved 15 August 2010 . [dead link ] ^ Government of Zhugqu County. "舟曲历史文化" . ^ Deng, Shasha (2 September 2010). "Death toll from NW China mudslides rises to 1,471; 294 still missing" . Xinhua . Archived from the original on 5 September 2010. Retrieved 5 May 2014 . ^ a b Wang Zhicheng (10 August 2010), "Dam building and deforestation, more than "natural" causes behind the Gansu disaster" , Asian news.it , retrieved 4 May 2014 , In more than 40 years, 126,000 hectares of forests have disappeared. More than 150 dams were built on local rivers with no regards for the local hydro-geological structure. ^ "2022年统计用区划代码和城乡划分代码：舟曲县" (in Chinese). National Bureau of Statistics of China.^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data China Meteorological Administration . Retrieved 27 August 2023 .^
中国气象数据网 China Meteorological Administration . Retrieved 27 August 2023 .
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