:Gyaca County

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|native_name ={{lower|0.1em|{{nobold|{{lang|zh-hans|加查县}} • {{Bo-textonly|རྒྱ་ཚ་རྫོང་།}}}}}}

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|map_caption =Location of Gyaca County (red) within Shannan City (yellow) and the Tibet A.R.

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|subdivision_type = Country

|subdivision_name = China

|subdivision_type1 = Autonomous region

|subdivision_name1 = Tibet

|subdivision_type2 = Prefecture-level city

|subdivision_name2 = Shannan (Lhoka)

|seat_type = County seat

|seat = Gyaca

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|area_total_km2 = 4,388.26

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|population_as_of = 2020

|population_footnotes = [http://www.citypopulation.de/en/china/xizang/admin/ Tibet: Prefectures, Cities, Districts and Counties]

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|population_total = 23,534

|population_density_km2 = auto

|timezone = China Standard

|utc_offset = +8

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|website = {{URL|http://www.jiacha.gov.cn/}}

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{{Infobox Chinese|order=st

|s=加查县

|t=加查縣

|p=Jiāchá Xiàn

|tib=རྒྱ་ཚ་རྫོང་།

|wylie=rgya tsha rdzong |zwpy=Gyaca Zong}}

Gyaca County ({{bo|t=རྒྱ་ཚ་རྫོང་།}}; {{lang-zh|s=加查县}}) is a county of Shannan located in the south-east of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

Gyatsa County is in the south of Tibet, stretching from the Podrang La pass along the southern side of the Brahmaputra River downstream to Pamda which is just to the southwest of Daklha Gampo, across the Brahmaputra. The county capital is in the town of Gyaca or Drumpa ({{convert|46|km|disp=or|abbr=on}} west of Pamda) which is alongside the Drakpo Dratsang Monastery. It is renowned for its walnuts and apricots.{{Cite book

| author = Gyurme Dorje

| authorlink = Gyurme Dorje

| title = Tibet Handbook with Bhutan

| edition= 2nd

| year = 1999

| location = Bath, UK

|publisher = Footprint Handbooks

|isbn= 978-1-900949-33-0

|pages=230}}

Lhamo La-tso is the name of a small oval lake in the area. It is also called "Oracle Lake", as it is where senior Tibetan monks go for visions to assist in the discovery of reincarnations of the Dalai Lamas is located in Gyaca County.

Administrative divisions

Gyaca County contains 2 towns and 5 townships.

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! Name

! Chinese

! Hanyu Pinyin

! Tibetan

! Wylie

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| colspan="5" style="text-align:center; background:#d3d3d3;"|Towns

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| Gyaca Town

|{{lang|zh-hans|加查镇}}

| {{Transliteration|zh|Jiāchá zhèn}}

|{{bo-textonly|རྒྱ་ཚ་གྲོང་རྡལ།}}

|{{Transliteration|bo|rgya tsha grong rdal}}

Ngarrab Town

|{{lang|zh-hans|安绕镇}}

| {{Transliteration|zh|Ānrào zhèn}}

|{{bo-textonly|མངར་རབ་གྲོང་རྡལ།}}

|{{Transliteration|bo|mngar rab grong rdal}}

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| colspan="5" style="text-align:center; background:#d3d3d3;"|Townships

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| Lhasöl Township

|{{lang|zh-hans|拉绥乡}}

| {{Transliteration|zh|Lāsuí xiāng}}

|{{bo-textonly|ལྷ་གསོལ་ཤང་།}}

|{{Transliteration|bo|lha gsol shang}}

Chêju Township

|{{lang|zh-hans|崔久乡}}

| {{Transliteration|zh|Cuījiǔ xiāng}}

|{{bo-textonly|ཆེས་བཅུ་ཤང་།}}

|{{Transliteration|bo|ches bcu shang}}

Ba Township

|{{lang|zh-hans|坝乡}}

| {{Transliteration|zh|Bà xiāng}}

|{{bo-textonly|སྦྲ་ཤང་།}}

|{{Transliteration|bo|sbra shang}}

Lingda Township

|{{lang|zh-hans|冷达乡}}

| {{Transliteration|zh|Lěngdá xiāng}}

|{{bo-textonly|གླིང་མདའ་ཤང་།}}

|{{Transliteration|bo|gling mda' shang}}

Lholing Township

|{{lang|zh-hans|洛林乡}}

| {{Transliteration|zh|Luòlín xiāng}}

|{{bo-textonly|ལྷོ་གླིང་ཤང་།}}

|{{Transliteration|bo|lho gling shang}}

Climate

{{Weather box|width=auto

|metric first=y

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|location = Gyaca, elevation {{convert|3260|m|ft|abbr=on}}, (1991–2020 normals)

|Jan high C = 10.9

|Feb high C = 13.3

|Mar high C = 16.1

|Apr high C = 18.9

|May high C = 22.1

|Jun high C = 25.1

|Jul high C = 24.6

|Aug high C = 24.0

|Sep high C = 22.9

|Oct high C = 20.2

|Nov high C = 16.1

|Dec high C = 12.1

|Jan mean C = 0.5

|Feb mean C = 3.5

|Mar mean C = 7.0

|Apr mean C = 10.1

|May mean C = 13.6

|Jun mean C = 16.7

|Jul mean C = 16.9

|Aug mean C = 16.4

|Sep mean C = 14.9

|Oct mean C = 10.7

|Nov mean C = 5.1

|Dec mean C = 1.0

|Jan low C = -7.9

|Feb low C = -5.1

|Mar low C = -0.9

|Apr low C = 3.0

|May low C = 7.1

|Jun low C = 11.2

|Jul low C = 12.3

|Aug low C = 11.8

|Sep low C = 10.1

|Oct low C = 3.8

|Nov low C = -2.8

|Dec low C = -7.0

|precipitation colour = green

|Jan precipitation mm = 1.2

|Feb precipitation mm = 2.4

|Mar precipitation mm = 10.4

|Apr precipitation mm = 24.0

|May precipitation mm = 44.3

|Jun precipitation mm = 84.8

|Jul precipitation mm = 149.6

|Aug precipitation mm = 124.2

|Sep precipitation mm = 66.9

|Oct precipitation mm = 13.5

|Nov precipitation mm = 2.7

|Dec precipitation mm = 0.4

|unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm

|Jan precipitation days = 1.1

|Feb precipitation days = 1.9

|Mar precipitation days = 5.5

|Apr precipitation days = 10.1

|May precipitation days = 14.3

|Jun precipitation days = 19.8

|Jul precipitation days = 23.8

|Aug precipitation days = 22.1

|Sep precipitation days = 18.2

|Oct precipitation days = 5.0

|Nov precipitation days = 1.6

|Dec precipitation days = 0.3

|year precipitation days =

|Jan humidity = 32

|Feb humidity = 33

|Mar humidity = 39

|Apr humidity = 46

|May humidity = 52

|Jun humidity = 60

|Jul humidity = 69

|Aug humidity = 69

|Sep humidity = 67

|Oct humidity = 53

|Nov humidity = 40

|Dec humidity = 36

|Jan sun = 234.2

|Feb sun = 223.1

|Mar sun = 234.2

|Apr sun = 225.5

|May sun = 226.5

|Jun sun = 200.5

|Jul sun = 182.2

|Aug sun = 190.1

|Sep sun = 197.2

|Oct sun = 245.6

|Nov sun = 245.6

|Dec sun = 233.3

|year sun =

| Jan percentsun = 72

| Feb percentsun = 70

| Mar percentsun = 63

| Apr percentsun = 58

| May percentsun = 54

| Jun percentsun = 48

| Jul percentsun = 43

| Aug percentsun = 47

| Sep percentsun = 54

| Oct percentsun = 70

| Nov percentsun = 77

| Dec percentsun = 73

| year percentsun =

|Jan snow days = 2.1

|Feb snow days = 3.6

|Mar snow days = 6.9

|Apr snow days = 2.2

|May snow days = 0.2

|Jun snow days = 0

|Jul snow days = 0

|Aug snow days = 0

|Sep snow days = 0

|Oct snow days = 0.3

|Nov snow days = 1.4

|Dec snow days = 1.1

|year snow days =

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Footnotes

External links

[https://archive.org/details/bdrc-W1KG15010 Gyaca County Annals]

Category:Counties of Tibet

Category:Shannan, Tibet