Libo County
{{Infobox settlement
|name = Libo County
|native_name = {{nobold|{{lang|zh-hans|荔波县}}}}
|other_name = Lipo
|postal_code = 558400
|postal_code_type = Postal code
|pushpin_map = Guizhou#Southwest China
|pushpin_label = Libo
|pushpin_map_caption = Location of the seat in Guizhou
|settlement_type = County
|image_skyline = Xiaoqikong.JPG
|image_map = Administrative Division Qiannan.png
|map_caption = Libo is the southeasternmost division in this map of Qiannan
|image_map1 = Location of Qiannan Prefecture within Guizhou (China).png
|map_caption1 = Qiannan in Guizhou
|subdivision_type = Country
|subdivision_name = China
|subdivision_type1 = Province
|subdivision_name1 = Guizhou
|subdivision_type2 = Autonomous prefecture
|subdivision_name2 = Qiannan
|seat_type = County seat
|seat = Yuping
|area_code = 0584
|area_total_km2 = 2432
|population =
|population_as_of = 2010
|population_density_km2 = auto
|population_total = 144,849
|coor_pinpoint = Libo County government
|coordinates = {{coord|25.4238|N|107.8988|E|type:adm3rd_region:CN-52_source:Gaode|format=dms|display=it}}
|elevation_ft =
|elevation_m =
|timezone = China Standard
|utc_offset = +8
|website = http://www.libo.gov.cn/
}}
Libo County ({{zh|s=荔波县 |t=荔波縣 |p=Lìbō Xiàn}}) is a county of southern Guizhou province, China, bordering Guangxi to the south. It is under the administration of the Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture.
Geography
The county is located in the remote southeastern corner of the prefecture, on the border with Guangxi. Two local sites, Xiaoqikong ({{lang|zh|小七孔}}) and Dongduo ({{lang|zh|洞多}}), notable for their spectacular karst formations, form part of the multi-site South China Karst UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 2007, which is an area about 550,000 km2 in extent.{{cite web |url = https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1248/ |title = South China Karst |website = UNESCO World Heritage Centre |publisher = United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization}}
Administrative divisions
Libo County is divided into 1 subdistrict, 5 towns and 2 ethnic township:{{cite web|url=http://www.stats.gov.cn/sj/tjbz/tjyqhdmhcxhfdm/2023/52/27/522722.html|script-title=zh:2023年统计用区划代码和城乡划分代码：荔波县| publisher = National Bureau of Statistics of China| language = zh-hans| access-date =}}
;subdistrict
- Yuping Subdistrict 玉屏街道
;towns
- Chaoyang Town 朝阳镇
- Maolan Town 茂兰镇
- Jialiang Town 甲良镇
- Jiarong Town 佳荣镇
- Xiaoqikong Town 小七孔镇
;ethnic townships
- Yaoshan Yao Ethnic Township 瑶山瑶族乡
- Limingguan Shui Ethnic Township 黎明关水族乡
Languages
Southwestern Mandarin, Mak, Ai-Cham, Bouyei, Sui, and Numao are spoken in Libo County. Sui is spoken primarily in Shuiyao Shui Ethnic Township 水尧水族乡.{{Cite book |last=Zhou |first=Guoyan 周国炎 |title=Zhōngguó xīnán mínzú zájū dìqū yǔyán guānxì yǔduō yǔ héxié yánjiū: Yǐ Diān Qián Guì pílín mínzú zájū dìqū wèi yánjiū gè'àn |date=2013 |publisher=Zhongguo shehui kexue chubanshe |isbn=978-7-5161-1985-3 |location=Beijing |language=zh |script-title=zh:中国西南民族杂居地区语言关系与多语和谐研究：以滇黔桂毗邻民族杂居地区为研究个案}}
Transportation
The Qiannan Libo Airport, opened in late 2007, has capacity to receive planes of the Boeing 737 class, and to handle up to 220,000 passengers annually."[https://archive.today/20130127185218/http://www.latimes.com/news/la-fi-china-airport13-2010mar13,0,4818752,full.story Plenty of new airports but few passengers in China: A construction spree brings flight service to some unlikely locales, and a hoped-for spurt in air traffic fails to materialize.]" David Pierson / Los Angeles Times / March 12, 2010 However, the $57-million facility is rather underutilized so far. According to the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) statistics, 151 paying passengers flew into or out of the airport in 2009 - which was a 98% drop compared to the previous year (7886 passengers), and placed the airport the last in list of the nation's 166 airports by traffic volume.{{cite web |url=http://www.caac.gov.cn/I1/K3/201002/P020100205397375196564.xls |script-title=zh:民航机场业务量 |publisher=CAAC |date=February 2010 |access-date=April 11, 2010 |archive-date=July 18, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718220856/http://www.caac.gov.cn/I1/K3/201002/P020100205397375196564.xls |url-status=dead }} Currently four airlines use the airport.
Flora
The karst environments in Libo County consist of the following types of forests.
- Warm coniferous forest
- Pinus kwangtungensis forest
- Warm needle and broad-leaved mixed forest
- Pseudotsuga sinensis, Platycarya longipes mixed forest
- Pseudotsuga sinensis, Pinus kwangtungensis, Quercus phillyraeoides mixed forest
- Evergreen and deciduous broad-leaved mixed forest
- Cyclobalanopsis glauca, Platycarya longipes mixed forest
- Platycarya longipes, Phellodendron amurense mixed forest
- Platycarya longipes, Viburnum mixed forest
- Handeliodendron bodinieri, Acer mixed forest
- Viburnum, Heptapleurum heptaphyllum mixed forest
- Sterculiaceae, Cyclobalanopsis glauca mixed forest
- Taxus cuspidata, Lindera mixed forest
- Koelreuteria paniculata, Aceraceae mixed forest
- Castanopsis fargesii, Elaeocarpaceae mixed forest
- Big-cluster bamboo forest
- Dendrocalamus tsiangii forest
Common angiosperm genera include Beilschmiedia, Cryptocarya, Casearia, Diospyros, Pittosporum, Acer, Carpinus, Ulmus, Viburnum, Prunus, and Rosa. Protected wild plants in Libo County include Handeliodendron bodinieri, Mussaenda anomala, Taxus chinensis, Paphiopedilum emersonii, Paphiopedilum barbigerum and Paphiopedilum micranthum, Pinus kwangtungensis, Pseudotsuga sinensis, Pseudotsuga brevifolia, Calocedrus macrolepis, Tetrathyrium subcordatum, Trachycarpus nana, Emmenopterys henryi, Liriodendron chinense.
Climate
{{Weather box|width=auto
|metric first=y
|single line=y
|collapsed = Y
|location = Libo, elevation {{convert|430|m|ft|abbr=on}}, (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–present)
|Jan high C = 12.4
|Feb high C = 15.5
|Mar high C = 19.1
|Apr high C = 24.6
|May high C = 28.2
|Jun high C = 30.1
|Jul high C = 31.8
|Aug high C = 32.3
|Sep high C = 30.0
|Oct high C = 25.3
|Nov high C = 20.9
|Dec high C = 15.5
|Jan mean C = 8.6
|Feb mean C = 11.1
|Mar mean C = 14.6
|Apr mean C = 19.6
|May mean C = 23.2
|Jun mean C = 25.5
|Jul mean C = 26.7
|Aug mean C = 26.4
|Sep mean C = 24.1
|Oct mean C = 19.9
|Nov mean C = 15.4
|Dec mean C = 10.6
|Jan low C = 6.1
|Feb low C = 8.2
|Mar low C = 11.6
|Apr low C = 16.1
|May low C = 19.6
|Jun low C = 22.5
|Jul low C = 23.5
|Aug low C = 22.8
|Sep low C = 20.3
|Oct low C = 16.5
|Nov low C = 11.8
|Dec low C = 7.4
|Jan record high C = 26.2 |Jan record low C = −4.3
|Feb record high C = 32.3 |Feb record low C = −1.9
|Mar record high C = 34.7 |Mar record low C = 0.0
|Apr record high C = 35.8 |Apr record low C = 3.8
|May record high C = 36.1 |May record low C = 7.9
|Jun record high C = 36.5 |Jun record low C = 12.5
|Jul record high C = 37.9 |Jul record low C = 15.7
|Aug record high C = 39.2 |Aug record low C = 17.5
|Sep record high C = 37.3 |Sep record low C = 11.8
|Oct record high C = 35.6 |Oct record low C = 5.3
|Nov record high C = 31.3 |Nov record low C = −0.1
|Dec record high C = 29.2 |Dec record low C = -4.0
|precipitation colour = green
|Jan precipitation mm = 27.4
|Feb precipitation mm = 30.0
|Mar precipitation mm = 53.4
|Apr precipitation mm = 94.2
|May precipitation mm = 167.9
|Jun precipitation mm = 262.0
|Jul precipitation mm = 218.1
|Aug precipitation mm = 176.2
|Sep precipitation mm = 94.7
|Oct precipitation mm = 65.9
|Nov precipitation mm = 38.5
|Dec precipitation mm = 22.0
|Jan humidity = 74
|Feb humidity = 73
|Mar humidity = 76
|Apr humidity = 76
|May humidity = 78
|Jun humidity = 82
|Jul humidity = 82
|Aug humidity = 80
|Sep humidity = 77
|Oct humidity = 76
|Nov humidity = 75
|Dec humidity = 71
|unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm
|Jan precipitation days = 10.0
|Feb precipitation days = 9.0
|Mar precipitation days = 13.7
|Apr precipitation days = 14.6
|May precipitation days = 16.7
|Jun precipitation days = 18.6
|Jul precipitation days = 18.2
|Aug precipitation days = 15.0
|Sep precipitation days = 10.2
|Oct precipitation days = 9.9
|Nov precipitation days = 8.5
|Dec precipitation days = 7.3
|year precipitation days =
|Jan sun = 37.5
|Feb sun = 43.0
|Mar sun = 54.5
|Apr sun = 77.7
|May sun = 93.8
|Jun sun = 81.4
|Jul sun = 132.5
|Aug sun = 159.9
|Sep sun = 141.4
|Oct sun = 103.3
|Nov sun = 91.8
|Dec sun = 74.1
|year sun =
| Jan percentsun = 11
| Feb percentsun = 13
| Mar percentsun = 15
| Apr percentsun = 20
| May percentsun = 22
| Jun percentsun = 20
| Jul percentsun = 32
| Aug percentsun = 40
| Sep percentsun = 39
| Oct percentsun = 29
| Nov percentsun = 28
| Dec percentsun = 23
| year percentsun =
|Jan snow days = 1.2
|Feb snow days = 0.4
|Mar snow days = 0
|Apr snow days = 0
|May snow days = 0
|Jun snow days = 0
|Jul snow days = 0
|Aug snow days = 0
|Sep snow days = 0
|Oct snow days = 0
|Nov snow days = 0
|Dec snow days = 0.3
|year snow days =
|source 1 = China Meteorological Administration{{cite web |url=http://data.cma.cn/data/weatherBk.html |script-title=zh:中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data |publisher=China Meteorological Administration |language = zh-hans |access-date=28 April 2023}}
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References
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Category:Rock formations of China
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