Sêrxü County

Sêrxü County
石渠县 · སེར་ཤུལ་རྫོང་།
Sershul, Dzachuka, Serxu, Shiqu
County
"Muri Mani" stone sutra
"Muri Mani" stone sutra
Location of Sêrxü County (red) within Garzê Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan
Location of Sêrxü County (red) within Garzê Prefecture (yellow) and Sichuan
Sêrxü is located in Sichuan
Sêrxü
Sêrxü
Location of the seat in Sichuan
Sêrxü is located in China
Sêrxü
Sêrxü
Sêrxü (China)
Coordinates: 32°58′44″N 98°06′10″E / 32.9790°N 98.1029°E / 32.9790; 98.1029
CountryChina
ProvinceSichuan
Autonomous prefectureGarzê
County seatJugar (Niga)
Area
 • Total
24,944 km2 (9,631 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total
103,633
 • Density4.2/km2 (11/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.shiqu.gov.cn
Sêrxü County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese石渠县
Traditional Chinese石渠縣
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinShíqú Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetanསེར་ཤུལ་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wylieser shul rdzong
Tibetan PinyinSêrxü Zong

Sêrxü County (Tibetan: སེར་ཤུལ་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 石渠县), also known as Sershul, Dzachuka, Serxu, or Shiqu is a county of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the northwest of Sichuan Province, China, bordering Qinghai to the west and the Tibet Autonomous Region to the southwest.

Geography

Aerial view of Serxu County.

Sêrxü (sershul) County is situated at the northwest corner of Sichuan province, and is also the westernmost county-level division of the province. Its area is approximately 25,000 km2, mainly covered by grasslands. The average elevation is 4,200 m above sea level.

The area is predominantly covered by grasslands used for nomadic herding. The population is around 68,000, 96% of whom are ethnic Tibetan.

By the end of 1997, there was an estimated livestock population of 581,470. These were mainly yaks, sheep, goats, and horses, but there was a small number of pigs. The human population of Shiqu County was approximately 63,400, 96.8% of which were ethnic Tibetans. There were 49,100 herdsmen, representing 77.6% of the population.

Sershul District villages include: Ariksar, Bumser, Changma, Dezhongma, Dzagyel, Geming, Gotsa, Junyung, Jowo, Kabshi, Kilung, Kyewu, Sershul Gompa, Serxu Dzong, Shaksa, Tromsa Genma, Tseboum Soumdo, Tsemkhog, Ombo and Wathul.

Sershul District has several monasteries, including: Ju Mohar, Sershul Monastery, Bumser Gonpo, Ariksar, Dzagyel, Changma, Trikar, Kabshi and Jowo; and the Gsumge Mani Stone Castle, a religious complex built out of mani stone tablets.

Administrative divisions

Sêrxü County is divided into 7 towns and 14 townships:

Name Simplified Chinese Hanyu Pinyin Tibetan Wylie Administrative division code
Towns
Jugar Town
(Niga) 		尼呷镇 Nígā Zhèn འཇུ་སྒར་གྲོང་རྡལ། 'ju sgar grong rdal 513332100
Loqug Town
(Loqung) 		洛须镇 Luòxū Zhèn ལོ་ཕྱུག་གྲོང་རྡལ། lo phyug grong rdal 513332101
Sêrxü Town
(Sênxü, Sexu) 		色须镇 Sèxū Zhèn སེར་ཤུལ་གྲོང་རྡལ། ser shul grong rdal 513332102
Qagca Town
(Xiazha) 		虾扎镇 Xiāzhā Zhèn ཕྱག་ཚ་གྲོང་རྡལ། phyag tsha grong rdal 513332103
Woinbo Town
(Wenbo) 		温波镇 Wēnbō Zhèn དབོན་པོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། dbon po grong rdal 513332104
Bumnying Town
(Mengyi) 		蒙宜镇 Méngyí Zhèn འབུམ་རྙིང་གྲོང་རྡལ། 'bum rnying grong rdal 513332105
Arigza Town
(Arizha) 		阿日扎镇 Ārìzhā Zhèn ཨ་རིག་རྫ་གྲོང་རྡལ། a rig rdza grong rdal 513332106
Townships
Zênda Township
(Zhenda) 		真达乡 Zhēndá Xiāng རྩེ་མདའ་ཤང་། rtse mda' shang 513332200
Pênda Township
(Benda) 		奔达乡 Bēndá Xiāng བེ་མདའ་ཤང་། be mda' shang 513332201
Zhêngko Township
(Zhengke) 		正科乡 Zhèngkē Xiāng ཀྲེང་ཁོ་ཤང་། kreng kho shang 513332202
Dêxungma Township
(De'ongma, Derongma) 		德荣马乡 Déróngmǎ Xiāng སྡེ་གཞུང་མ་ཤང་། sde gzhung ma shang 513332204
Chomsagabma Township
(Changshagongma) 		长沙贡马乡 Chángshāgóngmǎ Xiāng ཁྲོམ་བཟའ་འགབ་མ་ཤང་། khrom bza' 'gab ma shang 513332206
Gaxi Township
(Gayi) 		呷衣乡 Gāyī Xiāng ཀ་བཞི་ཤང་། ka bzhi shang 513332207
Gêmang Township
(Gemeng) 		格孟乡 Gémèng Xiāng དགེ་མང་ཤང་། dge mang shang 513332208
Xinrung Township
(Xinrong) 		新荣乡 Xīnróng Xiāng ཤིན་རུང་ཤང་། shin rung shang 513332210
Ju'nying Township
(Yiniu) 		宜牛乡 Yíniú Xiāng འཇུ་རྙིང་ཤང་། 'ju rnying shang 513332211
Kyiu Township
(Kyewu, Qiwu) 		起坞乡 Qǐwū Xiāng ཁྱེའུ་ཤང་། khye'u shang 513332213
Choxükongma Township
(Changxugongma) 		长须贡马乡 Chángxūgòngmǎ Xiāng ཁྲོ་ཤུལ་གོང་མ་ཤང་། khro shul gong ma shang 513332215
Chomzagabma Township
(Chomsakongma, Changshaganma) 		长沙干马乡 Chángshāgānmǎ Xiāng ཁྲོམ་རྫ་འགབ་མ་ཤང་། khrom rdza 'gab ma shang 513332216
Choxügabma Township
(Changxuganma) 		长须干马乡 Chángxūgānmǎ Xiāng ཁྲོ་ཤུལ་འགབ་མ་ཤང་། khro shul 'gab ma shang 513332217
Waxü Township
(Waxu) 		瓦须乡 Wǎxū Xiāng ཝ་ཤུལ་ཤང་། wa shul shang 513332219

Demographics

The population of the district was 62,408 inhabitants in 1999.[2]

There are about 52,660 nomads in the district, or 77.6% of the population.

Climate

Climate data for Sêrxü, elevation 4,200 m (13,800 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) 12.1
(53.8) 		10.2
(50.4) 		14.8
(58.6) 		17.5
(63.5) 		20.7
(69.3) 		23.1
(73.6) 		23.5
(74.3) 		22.6
(72.7) 		21.7
(71.1) 		19.1
(66.4) 		12.5
(54.5) 		10.0
(50.0) 		23.5
(74.3)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) −2.4
(27.7) 		0.0
(32.0) 		3.3
(37.9) 		7.2
(45.0) 		11.0
(51.8) 		14.0
(57.2) 		16.0
(60.8) 		15.9
(60.6) 		13.3
(55.9) 		7.4
(45.3) 		2.4
(36.3) 		−1.0
(30.2) 		7.3
(45.1)
Daily mean °C (°F) −11.5
(11.3) 		−8.3
(17.1) 		−4.3
(24.3) 		0.0
(32.0) 		3.9
(39.0) 		7.4
(45.3) 		9.3
(48.7) 		8.7
(47.7) 		5.9
(42.6) 		0.0
(32.0) 		−6.2
(20.8) 		−10.5
(13.1) 		−0.5
(31.2)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) −19.4
(−2.9) 		−15.7
(3.7) 		−10.8
(12.6) 		−5.8
(21.6) 		−1.8
(28.8) 		2.4
(36.3) 		3.8
(38.8) 		2.8
(37.0) 		0.6
(33.1) 		−5.2
(22.6) 		−13
(9) 		−18.5
(−1.3) 		−6.7
(19.9)
Record low °C (°F) −37.2
(−35.0) 		−31.8
(−25.2) 		−27.5
(−17.5) 		−15.9
(3.4) 		−11.2
(11.8) 		−6.0
(21.2) 		−4.1
(24.6) 		−7.9
(17.8) 		−10.0
(14.0) 		−20.3
(−4.5) 		−30.3
(−22.5) 		−37.8
(−36.0) 		−37.8
(−36.0)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 7.5
(0.30) 		10.0
(0.39) 		16.7
(0.66) 		28.8
(1.13) 		62.0
(2.44) 		108.6
(4.28) 		118.3
(4.66) 		92.1
(3.63) 		92.6
(3.65) 		46.4
(1.83) 		6.9
(0.27) 		4.0
(0.16) 		593.9
(23.4)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) 6.7 7.9 12.5 15.4 20.3 23.8 20.8 18.5 20.8 16.0 6.5 4.8 174
Average snowy days 8.9 11.5 15.9 19.5 19.4 5.8 1.2 1.1 7.8 18.3 9.2 7.2 125.8
Average relative humidity (%) 45 45 48 55 62 68 68 69 71 67 53 46 58
Mean monthly sunshine hours 205.0 188.2 203.9 207.1 199.9 170.6 191.6 190.2 177.1 188.4 210.2 211.4 2,343.6
Percent possible sunshine 64 60 55 53 46 40 44 47 48 54 68 68 54
Source: China Meteorological Administration[3][4]

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. ^ (in English) National Population Statistics Materials by County and City - 1999 Period, in China County & City Population 1999, Harvard China Historical GIS
  3. ^ 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
  4. ^ 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 13 April 2023.
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