Jiuzhaigou County
County in Sichuan, China
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Jiuzhaigou County (Chinese: 九寨沟县; Tibetan: གཟི་རྩ་སྡེ་དགུ་རྫོང་།; Qiang: Rrggucua) is a county of Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture.[3] Formerly called Nanping County (南坪县; Nánpíng Xiàn), it was renamed in 1998 to reflect the fact that the Jiuzhaigou Valley is located within its administration.[4] The county seat, Nanping, was created in 2013 by the merger of Yongle Town (永乐镇), Yongfeng Township (永丰乡), and Anle Township (安乐乡).[5]
Jiuzhaigou County
九寨沟县 · གཟི་རྩ་སྡེ་དགུ་རྫོང་། · Rrggucua Sizadêgu | |
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Pearl Shoals Waterfalls, Jiuzhaigou | |
.png) Location of Jiuzhaigou County (light red) in Ngawa (yellow) and Sichuan (light gray) | |
  Jiuzhaigou Location of the seat in Sichuan  Jiuzhaigou Jiuzhaigou (China) | |
| Coordinates: 33°16′N 104°14′E | |
| Country | China |
| Province | Sichuan |
| Autonomous prefecture | Ngawa |
| Seat | Nanping (Nainpin) |
| Area | |
• Total | 5,286 km2 (2,041 sq mi) |
| Elevation [1] (County seat) | 1,400 m (4,600 ft) |
| Population (2020)[2] | |
• Total | 66,055 |
| • Density | 12.50/km2 (32.37/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 623400 |
| Website | www |
| Jiuzhaigou County | |||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 九寨沟县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 九寨溝縣 | ||||||
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| Tibetan name | |||||||
| Tibetan | གཟི་རྩ་སྡེ་དགུ་རྫོང་། | ||||||
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| Qiang name | |||||||
| Qiang | Rrggucua | ||||||
The county consists of nine villages in a valley in Sichuan Province. The main ethnic group in the county is Han, with the second being Tibetan. The county seat has an altitude of about 1,400 m (4,600 ft).[1] It has a total area of 2,041 square miles (5,286 km2).[6] As of 2015, the county's total population was 67,519.[6]
Administrative divisions
Jiuzhaigou County contains fives towns, seven townships, and two other township-level divisions.[7]
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code | |
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| Towns | ||||||
| Zhangzha Town (Zangza) |
漳扎镇 | Zhāngzhā Zhèn | གཙང་རྩ་ཀྲེན། | gtsang rtsa kren | 513225101 | |
| Nanping Town (Nainpin) |
南坪镇 | Nánpíng Zhèn | ནན་ཕིན་གྲོང་རྡལ། | nan phin grong rdal | 513225102 | |
| Shuanghe Town (Shongho) |
双河镇 | Shuānghé Zhèn | ཧྲོང་ཧོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | hrong ho grong rdal | 513225103 | |
| Heihe Town (Hêho) |
黑河镇 | Hēihé Zhèn | ཧེ་ཧོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | he ho grong rdal | 513225104 | |
| Wujiao Town (Wujo) |
勿角镇 | Wùjiǎo Zhèn | ཝུའུ་ཅོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | wuvu co grong rdal | 513225105 | |
| Townships | ||||||
| Yonghe Township (Yungho) |
永和乡 | Yǒnghé Xiāng | ཡུང་ཧོ་ཞང་། | yung ho zhang | 513225201 | |
| Baihe Township (Qugar) |
白河乡 | Báihé Xiāng | ཆུ་དཀར་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | chu dkar yul tsho | 513225203 | |
| Baohua Township | 保华乡 | Bǎohuá Xiāng | པའོ་ཧྭ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | pavo hwa yul tsho | 513225205 | |
| Guoyuan Township (Goyoin) |
郭元乡 | Guōyuán Xiāng | ཀོའོ་ཡོན་ཞང་། | kovo yon zhang | 513225209 | |
| Caodi Township | 草地乡 | Cǎodì Xiāng | ཚའོ་ཏི་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | tshavo ti yul tsho | 513225210 | |
| Yuwa Township (Xungpa) |
玉瓦乡 | Yùwǎ Xiāng | གཞུང་བ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | gzhung ba yul tsho | 513225213 | |
| Dalu Township (Daglo) |
大录乡 | Dàlù Xiāng | སྟག་ལོ་ཞང་། | stag lo zhang | 513225214 | |
| Other divisions | ||||||
| Jiuzhaigou State Ranch | 九寨沟国营牧场 | Jiǔzhàigōu Guóyíng Mùchǎng | 513225400 | |||
| Jiuzhaigou Scenic Spot Authority | 九寨沟风景名胜管理局 | Jiǔzhàigōu Fēngjǐng Míngshèng Guǎnlǐjú | 513225401 | |||
Climate
| Climate data for Jiuzhaigou, elevation 1,441 m (4,728 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–present) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 17.9 (64.2) |
24.0 (75.2) |
31.2 (88.2) |
34.1 (93.4) |
34.9 (94.8) |
35.8 (96.4) |
37.8 (100.0) |
37.4 (99.3) |
35.7 (96.3) |
27.7 (81.9) |
23.7 (74.7) |
19.6 (67.3) |
37.8 (100.0) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 8.0 (46.4) |
11.1 (52.0) |
15.9 (60.6) |
21.3 (70.3) |
24.4 (75.9) |
27.1 (80.8) |
29.4 (84.9) |
28.8 (83.8) |
23.8 (74.8) |
18.7 (65.7) |
14.4 (57.9) |
9.4 (48.9) |
19.4 (66.8) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 2.6 (36.7) |
5.6 (42.1) |
9.8 (49.6) |
14.4 (57.9) |
17.6 (63.7) |
20.5 (68.9) |
22.9 (73.2) |
22.5 (72.5) |
18.5 (65.3) |
13.7 (56.7) |
8.7 (47.7) |
3.6 (38.5) |
13.4 (56.1) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −1.8 (28.8) |
1.2 (34.2) |
5.2 (41.4) |
9.3 (48.7) |
12.6 (54.7) |
15.8 (60.4) |
18.4 (65.1) |
18.1 (64.6) |
14.9 (58.8) |
10.2 (50.4) |
4.5 (40.1) |
−0.9 (30.4) |
9.0 (48.1) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −8.5 (16.7) |
−7.1 (19.2) |
−6.7 (19.9) |
0.2 (32.4) |
3.7 (38.7) |
8.4 (47.1) |
10.3 (50.5) |
8.9 (48.0) |
5.9 (42.6) |
−1.5 (29.3) |
−3.7 (25.3) |
−8.6 (16.5) |
−8.6 (16.5) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 2.1 (0.08) |
4.1 (0.16) |
21.0 (0.83) |
51.0 (2.01) |
85.9 (3.38) |
79.2 (3.12) |
82.9 (3.26) |
80.8 (3.18) |
75.8 (2.98) |
59.3 (2.33) |
9.0 (0.35) |
0.6 (0.02) |
551.7 (21.7) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 3.3 | 3.8 | 10.8 | 14.0 | 17.6 | 17.1 | 15.1 | 13.6 | 15.0 | 16.0 | 6.0 | 1.2 | 133.5 |
| Average snowy days | 7.5 | 4.4 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 2.7 | 16.7 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 54 | 54 | 57 | 60 | 65 | 68 | 69 | 69 | 73 | 73 | 64 | 56 | 64 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 141.3 | 127.1 | 138.1 | 149.2 | 155.5 | 141.1 | 164.0 | 157.6 | 106.1 | 114.5 | 137.0 | 142.2 | 1,673.7 |
| Percentage possible sunshine | 44 | 41 | 37 | 38 | 36 | 33 | 38 | 38 | 29 | 33 | 44 | 46 | 38 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[8][9] all-time extreme temperature[10][11] | |||||||||||||
Economy
The economy of Jiuzhaigou County primarily depends on tourism. In 2023 it totalled RMB 7.2 billion in revenue from 7 million tourists, accounting for 78.5% of the local income.[12]
Jiuzhaigou produces four designated origin agricultural products: Jiuzhaigou persimmon, Jiuzhaigou honey, Jiuzhai Daodang (Codonopsis) and Jiuzhai pork. Other notable products are Jiuzhaigou sweet cherries and Cordyceps mushroom.[13]
The industrial output mainly concerns (hydro)power generation and gold mining.[13]
