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Kardze County

Garzê County or Kardze County (Tibetan: དཀར་མཛེས་རྫོང་།, Wylie: dkar mdzes rdzong), called Ganzi County in Chinese (Chinese: 甘孜县; pinyin: Gānzī xiàn), is one of the 18 subdivisions of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in northwestern Sichuan province, China. The Yalong River passes just south of the town Garzê, also known as Ganzi, the capital town of the county, which has some 16,920 inhabitants (2010), many of them ethnic Tibetans, and is famous for its Tibetan lamasery. Historically, it is part of the Tibetan cultural region of Kham and now defunct province of Xikang (or Sikang). It lies on the northern section of the Sichuan-Tibet Highway.

Geography and climate

Due to its elevation, Garzê County has a monsoon-influenced humid continental climate (Köppen Dwb) and subarctic climate, with cold but very dry winters, and warm summers with frequent rain. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from −3.9 °C (25.0 °F) in January to 14.2 °C (57.6 °F) in July, while the annual mean is 5.93 °C (42.7 °F). Over two-thirds of the annual precipitation of 646 mm (25.4 in) occurs from June thru September. With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 49% in July to 74% in November and December, the county seat receives abundant, outside of summer, sunshine, totalling 2,620 hours annually. The diurnal temperature variation is large, averaging 14.5 °C (26.1 °F) annually.

Climate data for Garzê County, elevation 3,394 m (11,135 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) 20.7
(69.3)
20.6
(69.1)
25.3
(77.5)
27.0
(80.6)
28.9
(84.0)
30.5
(86.9)
29.7
(85.5)
29.6
(85.3)
28.0
(82.4)
25.9
(78.6)
21.3
(70.3)
18.2
(64.8)
30.5
(86.9)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 6.3
(43.3)
8.7
(47.7)
11.6
(52.9)
15.1
(59.2)
18.7
(65.7)
20.5
(68.9)
21.6
(70.9)
21.8
(71.2)
19.8
(67.6)
15.1
(59.2)
10.6
(51.1)
6.9
(44.4)
14.7
(58.5)
Daily mean °C (°F) −3.5
(25.7)
−0.4
(31.3)
3.2
(37.8)
6.9
(44.4)
10.9
(51.6)
13.4
(56.1)
14.5
(58.1)
14.2
(57.6)
11.8
(53.2)
6.9
(44.4)
0.9
(33.6)
−3.2
(26.2)
6.3
(43.3)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −10.5
(13.1)
−7.2
(19.0)
−3.3
(26.1)
0.3
(32.5)
4.5
(40.1)
8.1
(46.6)
9.3
(48.7)
8.8
(47.8)
6.7
(44.1)
1.5
(34.7)
−5.4
(22.3)
−10.0
(14.0)
0.2
(32.4)
Record low °C (°F) −26.5
(−15.7)
−22.6
(−8.7)
−16.4
(2.5)
−9.6
(14.7)
−4.1
(24.6)
−2.4
(27.7)
0.7
(33.3)
−1.1
(30.0)
−2.0
(28.4)
−9.2
(15.4)
−21.4
(−6.5)
−26.0
(−14.8)
−26.5
(−15.7)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 5.0
(0.20)
9.9
(0.39)
20.9
(0.82)
36.4
(1.43)
79.0
(3.11)
139.3
(5.48)
121.0
(4.76)
94.8
(3.73)
104.4
(4.11)
52.1
(2.05)
10.3
(0.41)
3.4
(0.13)
676.5
(26.62)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 3.8 5.6 8.8 13.4 18.2 22.7 20.8 18.2 18.4 13.6 4.8 2.7 151
Average snowy days 5.4 7.9 11.0 8.3 1.9 0.2 0 0 0.1 4.6 5.7 4.2 49.3
Average relative humidity (%) 42 43 46 51 55 65 68 67 68 64 53 47 56
Mean monthly sunshine hours 215.3 195.0 215.5 212.8 223.5 197.8 200.6 198.9 204.2 213.7 229.7 232.6 2,539.6
Percent possible sunshine 67 62 58 54 52 47 47 49 56 61 73 74 58
Source 1: China Meteorological Administration
Source 2: Weather China

Administrative divisions

Garzê County is divided into 3 towns and 18 townships:

Name Simplified Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie Administrative division code
Towns
Garzê Town
(Ganzi)
甘孜镇 Gānzī Zhèn དཀར་མཛེས་གྲོང་རྡལ། dkar mdzes grong rdal 513328100
Calung Town
(Chalong)
查龙镇 Chálóng Zhèn ཚྭ་ལུང་གྲོང་རྡལ། tshwa lung grong rdal 513328101
Dainma Town
(Laima)
来马镇 Láimǎ Zhèn འདན་མ་གྲོང་རྡལ། 'dan ma grong rdal 513328102
Townships
Garrag Township
(Gala)
呷拉乡 Gālā Xiāng དཀར་རགས་ཤང་། dkar rags shang 513328200
Sêrqudêng Township
(Sexidi)
色西底乡 Sèxīdǐ Xiāng གསེར་ཆུ་སྟེང་ཤང་། gser chu steng shang 513328201
Dando Township
(Nanduo)
南多乡 Nánduō Xiāng མདའ་མདོ་ཤང་། mda' mdo shang 513328202
Sêrkar Township
(Shengkang)
生康乡 Shēngkāng Xiāng གསེར་མཁར་ཤང་། gser mkhar shang 513328203
Konglam Township
(Kolam, Gonglong)
贡隆乡 Gònglóng Xiāng གོང་ལམ་ཤང་། gong lam shang 513328204
Zakog Township
(Zhake)
扎科乡 Zhākē Xiāng རྫ་ཁོག་ཤང་། rdza khog shang 513328205
Qêsêr Township
(Xise)
昔色乡 Xīsè Xiāng བྱེ་གསེར་ཤང་། bye gser shang 513328207
Kargang Township
(Kagong)
卡攻乡 Kǎgōng Xiāng མཁར་སྒང་ཤང་། mkhar sgang shang 513328208
Ringo Township
(Renguo)
仁果乡 Rénguǒ Xiāng རི་མགོ་ཤང་། ri mgo shang 513328209
Doba Township
(Tuoba)
拖坝乡 Tuōbà Xiāng ལྟོ་པ་ཤང་། lto pa shang 513328210
Tingka Township 庭卡乡 Tíngkǎ Xiāng ཐིང་ཁ་ཤང་། thing kha shang 513328212
Xarqog Township
(Xiaxiong)
下雄乡 Xiàxióng Xiāng ཤར་ཕྱོགས་ཤང་། shar phyogs shang 513328213
Sitangda Township
(Sitongda)
四通达乡 Sìtōngdá Xiāng ཟི་ཐང་མདའ་ཤང་། zi thang mda' shang 513328214
Dotog Township
(Dodi, Duodu)
夺多乡 Duóduō Xiāng རྡོ་ཐོག་ཤང་། rdo thog shang 513328215
Nyikog Township
(Nike)
泥柯乡 Níkē Xiāng ཉི་ཁོག་ཤང་། nyi khog shang 513328216
Caza Township
(Chazha)
茶扎乡 Cházhā Xiāng ཚ་རྩྭ་ཤང་། tsha rtswa shang 513328217
Dadoi Township
(Dade)
大德乡 Dàdé Xiāng ཟླ་སྟོད་ཤང་། zla stod shang 513328218
Kyaglung Township
(Karlung, Kalong)
卡龙乡 Kǎlóng Xiāng འཁྱགས་ལུང་ཤང་། 'khyags lung shang 513328219

Transport

References

  1. ^ "甘孜州第七次全国人口普查公报(第二号)" (in Chinese). Government of Garzê Prefecture. 2021-06-04.
  2. ^ Tibet 2002: A Year Book. London: Tibet Information Network. 2003. p. 149. ISBN 0-9541961-5-5 – via archive.org.
  3. ^ City Population. "Gānzī Zhèn (Gānzī Xiàn)". Retrieved 22 March 2017.
  4. ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  5. ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  6. ^ 甘孜 - 气象数据 -中国天气网 (in Chinese). Weather China. Retrieved 29 November 2022.