Huangyuan County

Huangyuan County (Chinese: 湟源县) is a county of Qinghai Province, China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Xining, the capital of Qinghai. It is under the administration of Xining city. The county seat is Chengguan Town, known in Mongolian as Dan Gar and in Tibetan as Tongkor.

Huangyuan 湟源县
County
Location of Huangyan
Huangyuan Location of the seat in Qinghai
Coordinates: 36.682°N 101.256°E / 36.682; 101.256
Country	China
Province	Qinghai
Prefecture-level city	Xining
Seat	Chengguan Town
Area
• Total	1,545 km2 (597 sq mi)
Population  (2020)
• Total	109,802
• Density	71/km2 (180/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)

Huangyuan County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	湟源县
Traditional Chinese	湟源縣
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Huángyuán Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetan	སྟོང་སྐོར་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions Wylie stong skor rdzong

The remains of Ladrolne Gompa and Rali Hermitage may be seen between Haiyan and Tongkor. A branch of Tongkor Monastery, known as Ganden Tengyeling (Ch. Cinghosi), just to the northwest of the Chengguan is also in ruins.^[1]

Subdivisions

Huangyuan County is divided into 2 towns, 6 townships, and 1 ethnic township:

• Chengguan Town (城关镇)
• Dahua Town (大华镇)
• Dongxia Township (东峡乡)
• Heping Township (和平乡)
• Bohang Township (波航乡)
• Shenzhong Township (申中乡)
• Bayan Township (巴燕乡)
• Sizhai Township (寺寨乡)
• Nyida Tibetan Ethnic Township (日月藏族乡, ཉི་ཟླ་བོད་རིགས་ཞང་།)

Climate

Climate data for Huangyuan, elevation 2,675 m (8,776 ft), (1991–2020 normals)
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	1.1 (34.0)	4.3 (39.7)	9.2 (48.6)	14.2 (57.6)	17.3 (63.1)	20.2 (68.4)	22.0 (71.6)	21.5 (70.7)	17.0 (62.6)	12.5 (54.5)	6.7 (44.1)	2.1 (35.8)	12.3 (54.2)
Daily mean °C (°F)	−8.0 (17.6)	−4.3 (24.3)	0.8 (33.4)	6.4 (43.5)	10.0 (50.0)	13.6 (56.5)	15.5 (59.9)	14.9 (58.8)	10.8 (51.4)	5.1 (41.2)	−1.6 (29.1)	−6.8 (19.8)	4.7 (40.5)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	−15.1 (4.8)	−11.4 (11.5)	−6.1 (21.0)	−0.4 (31.3)	3.8 (38.8)	7.9 (46.2)	10.1 (50.2)	9.9 (49.8)	6.5 (43.7)	−0.1 (31.8)	−7.6 (18.3)	−13.6 (7.5)	−1.3 (29.6)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	1.2 (0.05)	1.5 (0.06)	8.6 (0.34)	20.1 (0.79)	55.1 (2.17)	68.8 (2.71)	90.3 (3.56)	89.7 (3.53)	68.3 (2.69)	20.8 (0.82)	5.7 (0.22)	1.5 (0.06)	431.6 (17)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm)	2.7	2.9	5.5	7.4	12.2	15.5	16.2	15.4	15.2	8.3	3.7	2.5	107.5
Average snowy days	4.5	6.0	7.8	5.5	1.5	0	0	0	0.3	4.2	5.5	3.8	39.1
Average relative humidity (%)	46	44	45	50	58	67	72	75	75	67	58	52	59
Mean monthly sunshine hours	214.6	211.8	242.5	243.3	239.3	225.7	223.9	211.9	178.9	206.1	212.9	208.6	2,619.5
Percent possible sunshine	69	68	65	61	55	52	51	51	49	60	70	70	60
Source: China Meteorological Administration[2][3]

Tourist sites

• Dan Gar Ancient Town, the historic core of Chengguan Town, a historic trading town.
• Riyue Mountain and the remains of Tongkor Monastery, a mountain pass where Princess Wencheng supposedly traveled through in the 7th century CE.

See also

• List of administrative divisions of Qinghai

References

• Dorje, Gyurme. (1999). Footprint Tibet Handbook with Bhutan. (2nd Ed.) Footprint Handbooks, Bath, England. ISBN 0-8442-2190-2.

Footnotes

1. Dorje (1999), p. 536.
2. 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
3. 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 27 September 2023.