Hongyuan County
{{Infobox settlement
|name = Hongyuan County
|native_name = {{nobold|{{lang|zh-hans|红原县}} • {{bo-textonly|སྐ་ཁོག་རྫོང་།}}}}
|other_name = Gakog, Gaqu, Hungyoin
|postal_code_type = Postal code
|settlement_type = County
|image_skyline = Birdview 3051.jpg
|image_caption = Aerial view over Mewa Monastery
|image_map = Location of Hongyuan within Sichuan (China).png
|map_caption = Location of Hongyuan County (red) in Ngawa Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan
| pushpin_map = Sichuan#China
| pushpin_label = Hongyuan
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Sichuan
|coordinates = {{coord|32|52|35|N|102|32|24|E|region:CN-51_type:landmark_source:kolossus-dewiki|display=inline, title}}
|subdivision_type = Country
|subdivision_name = China
|subdivision_type1 = Province
|subdivision_name1 = Sichuan
|subdivision_type2 = Autonomous prefecture
|subdivision_name2 = Ngawa
| seat = Kyungqu
| seat_type = County seat
|area_total_km2 = 8398
|population_total = 46644
|population_as_of = 2020
|population_density_km2 = auto
|elevation_m =
|timezone = China Standard
|utc_offset = +8
|website = {{URL|http://www.hongyuan.gov.cn/}}
}}
{{Infobox Chinese |order=st|s=红原县 |t=紅原縣 |p=Hóngyuán Xiàn |j=hung4jyun4 jyun2
|tib={{bo-textonly|རྐ་ཁོག་རྫོང་།}}
{{bo-textonly|སྐ་ཆུ་རྫོང་།}}
{{bo-textonly|ཧུང་ཡོན་རྫོང་།}}|wylie=rka khog rdzong or
rka chu rdzong or
hung yon rdzong|zwpy=Gakog Zong or
Gaqu Zong or
Hungyoin Zong
}}
Gakog (Hongyuan) County ({{bo|t=སྐ་ཆུ་རྫོང་།}} or {{bo-textonly|སྐ་ཁོག་རྫོང་།}}; {{zh|s=红原县}}) is a county in the north of Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. There is a river called Ka Chu/Gaqu ({{bo-textonly|སྐ་ཆུ།}}) in the area and kog means "valley" or "area"; thus it means the area of the Ga River.{{Cite web|url=https://mandala.shanti.virginia.edu/places/1078/overview/nojs|title=Kakhok {{!}} Shanti Knowledge Maps|website=mandala.shanti.virginia.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-11-18}}
File:Aerial panorama of Waqie Talin 瓦切塔林 in Hongyuan county.jpg
This is the only county under the Prefecture with entirely yak herding pastoralists. The average altitude above the sea level is {{convert|3600|m|abbr=on}}. About 8,398 square meter and about 40,000 people reside (2004) mostly Amdo Tibetan. The language is spoken is one of the most conservative dialect among the Amdo Tibetan varieties. The county seat is {{ill|Kyungqu|lt=|zh|邛溪镇}} (a.k.a. Khyungchu).
Southwest University for Nationalities maintains the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Ecological Environmental Protection and Advanced Technology for Animal Husbandry in Hongyuan County."[http://english.swun.edu.cn/index/About_Us.htm About Us] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304121118/http://english.swun.edu.cn/index/About_Us.htm |date=2016-03-04 }}." Southwest University for Nationalities. Retrieved on November 16, 2015.
The country is served by Aba Hongyuan Airport.
Governance
= Hongyuan County Public Security Bureau =
The Hongyuan County Public Security Bureau ({{Zh|c=红原县公安局}}) is the primary law enforcement agency in Hongyuan county. It operates 10 police stations and 1 Jail along with a traffic police unit, a forestry unit and a plains unit.{{Cite web |title=县公安局 |url=https://www.hongyuan.gov.cn/hyxrmzf/zfbm/201909/4353bf8604184461a847e3f61c57d9a7.shtml |access-date=2025-03-12 |website=Hongyuan county government}} As of 2016, the forestry unit had 16 officers.{{Cite web |title=红原县森林公安局2016年度部门决算公开编制说明_红原县人民政府 |url=https://www.hongyuan.gov.cn/hyxrmzf/c103233/201708/65b6b8de3b274eb5becef63ad0ee63a5.shtml |access-date=2025-03-12 |website=www.hongyuan.gov.cn}}
== Line of duty-deaths ==
On 15 March 2020, a officer of the forestry unit died due to duty-related illness.{{Cite web |title=四川红原县30岁民警牺牲在抗疫一线-新华网 |url=http://www.xinhuanet.com/politics/2020-03/16/c_1125720614.htm |access-date=2025-03-12 |website=www.xinhuanet.com}}
= Hongyuan County Fire and Rescue Battalion =
The Hongyuan County Fire and Rescue Battalion ({{Zh|c=红原县消防救援大队}}) provides firefighting and rescue services within the county.{{Cite web |title=红原县消防救援大队开展消防安全知识宣传活动_红原县人民政府 |url=https://www.hongyuan.gov.cn/hyxrmzf/c100051/202411/09b9a59fd0c944418a0357acc1df6790.shtml |access-date=2025-03-12 |website=www.hongyuan.gov.cn}}
Climate
Hongyuan has a subarctic climate (Köppen Dwc) with short, mild summers and cold winters, although not as cold as subarctic climates at higher latitudes. It is affected by the Asian Monsoon.
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|metric first=y
|single line=y
|collapsed = Y
|location = Hongyuan, elevation {{convert|3492|m|ft|abbr=on}}, (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010)
|Jan high C = 2.7
|Feb high C = 4.7
|Mar high C = 7.2
|Apr high C = 10.9
|May high C = 13.8
|Jun high C = 16.0
|Jul high C = 18.4
|Aug high C = 18.2
|Sep high C = 15.5
|Oct high C = 10.9
|Nov high C = 7.0
|Dec high C = 3.7
|Jan mean C = -8.8
|Feb mean C = -5.6
|Mar mean C = -1.3
|Apr mean C = 2.8
|May mean C = 6.4
|Jun mean C = 9.7
|Jul mean C = 11.5
|Aug mean C = 10.8
|Sep mean C = 7.9
|Oct mean C = 3.0
|Nov mean C = -2.7
|Dec mean C = -7.6
|Jan low C = -18.5
|Feb low C = -14.3
|Mar low C = -7.7
|Apr low C = -3.5
|May low C = 0.4
|Jun low C = 4.6
|Jul low C = 5.8
|Aug low C = 4.8
|Sep low C = 2.5
|Oct low C = -2.1
|Nov low C = -9.5
|Dec low C = -16.2
|Jan record high C = 15.4 |Jan record low C = -36.0
|Feb record high C = 16.6 |Feb record low C = -30.2
|Mar record high C = 19.6 |Mar record low C = -26.3
|Apr record high C = 23.0 |Apr record low C = -14.9
|May record high C = 24.6 |May record low C = -14.8
|Jun record high C = 26.0 |Jun record low C = -4.4
|Jul record high C = 25.7 |Jul record low C = -2.6
|Aug record high C = 25.6 |Aug record low C = -4.9
|Sep record high C = 24.9 |Sep record low C = -6.7
|Oct record high C = 23.1 |Oct record low C = -15.3
|Nov record high C = 15.4 |Nov record low C = -26.6
|Dec record high C = 14.4 |Dec record low C = -30.7
|year high C= |year low C=
|year high F = |year low F =
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|Jan precipitation mm = 7.3
|Feb precipitation mm = 11.0
|Mar precipitation mm = 26.5
|Apr precipitation mm = 50.3
|May precipitation mm = 107.6
|Jun precipitation mm = 131.0
|Jul precipitation mm = 122.1
|Aug precipitation mm = 109.3
|Sep precipitation mm = 111.6
|Oct precipitation mm = 70.8
|Nov precipitation mm = 11.7
|Dec precipitation mm = 3.9
|year precipitation mm =
|Jan humidity = 58
|Feb humidity = 59
|Mar humidity = 65
|Apr humidity = 68
|May humidity = 72
|Jun humidity = 75
|Jul humidity = 76
|Aug humidity = 77
|Sep humidity = 79
|Oct humidity = 77
|Nov humidity = 66
|Dec humidity = 59
|unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm
|Jan precipitation days = 5.9
|Feb precipitation days = 8.0
|Mar precipitation days = 12.6
|Apr precipitation days = 15.9
|May precipitation days = 21.2
|Jun precipitation days = 21.3
|Jul precipitation days = 18.8
|Aug precipitation days = 17.2
|Sep precipitation days = 19.5
|Oct precipitation days = 17.9
|Nov precipitation days = 6.8
|Dec precipitation days = 4.1
|year precipitation days =
|Jan sun = 215.4
|Feb sun = 186.6
|Mar sun = 199.0
|Apr sun = 203.1
|May sun = 196.1
|Jun sun = 165.5
|Jul sun = 201.5
|Aug sun = 206.6
|Sep sun = 168.9
|Oct sun = 171.4
|Nov sun = 210.9
|Dec sun = 225.7
|year sun =
| Jan percentsun = 68
| Feb percentsun = 60
| Mar percentsun = 53
| Apr percentsun = 52
| May percentsun = 46
| Jun percentsun = 39
| Jul percentsun = 47
| Aug percentsun = 51
| Sep percentsun = 46
| Oct percentsun = 49
| Nov percentsun = 68
| Dec percentsun = 73
| year percentsun =
|Jan snow days = 8.1
|Feb snow days = 10.6
|Mar snow days = 16.8
|Apr snow days = 16.0
|May snow days = 8.6
|Jun snow days = 1.6
|Jul snow days = 0.2
|Aug snow days = 0.4
|Sep snow days = 2.3
|Oct snow days = 13.9
|Nov snow days = 9.0
|Dec snow days = 5.7
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Administrative divisions
Hongyuan County has 6 townships and 4 townships:
| class="wikitable" align="center" style="width:50%; border="1" |
| Name
! Simplified Chinese ! Hanyu Pinyin ! Tibetan ! Wylie |
|---|
| colspan="7" style="text-align:center; background:#d3d3d3;"|Towns |
| ---------
| {{Ill|Kyungqu|lt=Kyungqu town|zh|邛溪镇|bo|ཁྱུང་མཆུ་}} |{{lang|zh-hans|邛溪镇}} |{{transl|zh|Qióngxī Zhèn}} |{{bo-textonly|ཁྱུང་མཆུ་གྲོང་རྡལ།}} |{{transl|bo|khyung mchu grong rdal}} | 513233100 |
| {{Ill|Da'gyailing|lt=Da'gyailing town|zh|刷经寺镇}} (Sajinse, Shuajingsi) |{{lang|zh-hans|刷经寺镇}} |{{transl|zh|Shuājīngsì Zhèn}} |{{bo-textonly|ལྟ་རྒྱལ་གླིང་གྲོང་རྡལ།}} |{{transl|bo|lta rgyal gling grong rdal}} | 513233101 |
| {{Ill|Waqên|lt=Waqên town|zh|瓦切镇}} (Waqie) |{{lang|zh-hans|瓦切镇}} |{{transl|zh|Wǎqiē Zhèn}} |{{bo-textonly|སྦྲ་ཆེན་གྲོང་རྡལ།}} |{{transl|bo|sbra chen grong rdal}} | 513233102 |
| {{Ill|Amqog|lt=Amqog town|zh|安曲镇}} (Anqog, Anqu) |{{lang|zh-hans|安曲镇}} |{{transl|zh|Ānqǔ Zhèn}} |{{bo-textonly|ཨ་མཆོག་གྲོང་རྡལ།}} |{{transl|bo|a mchog grong rdal}} | 513233103 |
| Sêrdêu Town (Sêrdiu, Sedi) |{{lang|zh-hans|色地镇}} |{{transl|zh|Sèdì Zhèn}} |{{bo-textonly|གསེར་རྡེའུ་གྲོང་རྡལ།}} |{{transl|bo|gser rde'u grong rdal}} | 513233104 |
| {{Ill|Lungsi|lt=Lungsi town|zh|龙日镇}} (Longriba, Longri) |{{lang|zh-hans|龙日镇}} |{{transl|zh|Lòngrì Zhèn}} |{{bo-textonly|ལུང་ཟི་གྲོང་རྡལ།}} |{{transl|bo|lung zi grong rdal}} | 513233105 |
| colspan="7" style="text-align:center; background:#d3d3d3;"|Townships |
| ---------
| {{Ill|Gyarong Township|zh|江茸乡}} |{{lang|zh-hans|江茸乡}} |{{transl|zh|Jiāngróng Xiāng}} |{{bo-textonly|སྐྱ་རོང་ཡུལ་ཚོ།}} |{{transl|bo|skya rong yul tsho}} | 513233202 |
| {{Ill|Carima Township|zh|查尔玛乡}} (Cha'erma) |{{lang|zh-hans|查尔玛乡}} |{{transl|zh|Chá'ěrmǎ Xiāng}} |{{bo-textonly|ཚ་རི་མ་ཡུལ་ཚོ།}} |{{transl|bo|tsha ri ma yul tsho}} | 513233203 |
| {{Ill|Amoi Township|zh|阿木乡}} (Amu) |{{lang|zh-hans|阿木乡}} |{{transl|zh|Āmù Xiāng}} |{{bo-textonly|ཨ་མོའི་ཡུལ་ཚོ།}} |{{transl|bo|a mo'i yul tsho}} | 513233205 |
| {{Ill|Mêwa Township|zh|麦洼乡 (红原县)}} (Maiwa) |{{lang|zh-hans|麦洼乡}} |{{transl|zh|Màiwā Xiāng}} |{{bo-textonly|རྨེ་བ་ཡུལ་ཚོ།}} |{{transl|bo|rme ba yul tsho}} | 513233207 |
National priority protected sites
There is 1 National priority protected site in Hongyuan County.
- {{Ill|Aba Long March Relics|zh|阿壩紅軍長征遺跡}} - added as part of the {{Ill|6th Batch of National Priority Protected Sites|zh|第六批全国重点文物保护单位}}{{Cite web |title=国务院关于核定并公布第六批全国重点文物保护单位的通知 |url=https://www.gov.cn/zwgk/2006-06/02/content_297818.htm |access-date=2025-03-12 |website=www.gov.cn}}
- {{Ill|Yakouxia Mountain Red Army Martyrs Mausoleum|zh|亞口夏山紅軍烈士墓}}{{Cite web |title=我国海拔最高的红军烈士墓 |url=https://zqb.cyol.com/html/2019-08/02/nw.D110000zgqnb_20190802_3-03.htm |access-date=2025-03-12 |website=zqb.cyol.com}}
References
{{County-level divisions of Sichuan}}
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