County in Sichuan, China
Heishui County (Chinese : 黑水县 ; Tibetan : ཁྲོ་ཆུ་རྫོང་། ; Qiang : Vvlukvua) is a county in the north of Sichuan Province , China. It is under the administration of the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture .[ 3] The county has an area of 1,682 square miles (4,356 km2 ) and its average elevation is 11,627 feet (3,544 m).[ 1] As of 2016, the county has a population of 61,744.[ 4]
Administrative divisions
Heishui County has jurisdiction over 8 towns and 7 townships :[ 4]
Name
Simplified Chinese
Hanyu Pinyin
Tibetan
Wylie
Administrative division code
Towns
Doka Town (Luhua)
芦花镇
Lúhuā Zhèn
རྡོ་ཁ་གྲོང་རྡལ།
rdo kha grong rdal
513228100
Kalung Town (Luhua)
卡龙镇
Lúhuā Zhèn
མཁའ་ལུང་གྲོང་རྡལ།
mkhav lung grong rdal
513228101
Sêrgu Town (Ser'ergu)
色尔古镇
Sè'ěrgǔ Zhèn
གསེར་རྒུ་གྲོང་རྡལ།
gser rgu grong rdal
513228102
Kixiu Town (Xi'er)
西尔镇
Xī'ěr Zhèn
གིས་གཤིའུ་གྲོང་རྡལ།
gis gshivu grong rdal
513228103
Musu Town
木苏镇
Mùsū Zhèn
མུ་སུ་གྲོང་རྡལ།
mu su grong rdal
513228104
Sadoi Town (Shashiduo)
沙石多镇
Shāshíduō Zhèn
ས་སྟོད་གྲོང་རྡལ།
sa stod grong rdal
513228105
Jimulê Town (Zhimulin)
知木林镇
Zhīmùlín Zhèn
ཅི་མུ་ལེའི་གྲོང་རྡལ།
ci mu levi grong rdal
513228106
Jawu Town (Zhawo)
扎窝镇
Zhāwō Zhèn
ཅ་བུ་གྲོང་རྡལ།
ca bu grong rdal
513228107
Townships
Qibirliangzi Township (Waboliangzi)
瓦钵梁子乡
Wǎbōliángzǐ Xiāng
ཆི་པིར་ལིའང་ཙི་ཡུལ་ཚོ།
chi pir livang tsi yul tsho
513228204
Diru Township (Shidiaolou)
石碉楼乡
Shídiāolóu Xiāng
སྟི་རུ་ཡུལ་ཚོ།
sti ru yul tsho
513228206
Lonbag Township (Longba)
龙坝乡
Lóngbà Xiāng
གློ་འབག་ཡུལ་ཚོ།
glo vbag yul tsho
513228207
Zhido Township (Luoduo)
洛多乡
Luòduō Xiāng
འདྲི་ཏོ་ཡུལ་ཚོ།
vdri to yul tsho
513228208
Gaku Township (Weigu)
维古乡
Wéigǔ Xiāng
དགའ་གུ་ཡུལ་ཚོ།
dgav gu yul tsho
513228210
Qunag Township (Qinglang)
晴朗乡
Qínglǎng Xiāng
ཆུ་ནག་ཡུལ་ཚོ།
chu nag yul tsho
513228213
Cibir Township (Ciba)
慈坝乡
Cíbà Xiāng
ཚི་པིར་ཡུལ་ཚོ།
tshi pir yul tsho
513228214
Climate
Climate data for Heishui, elevation 2,400 m (7,900 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)
21.1 (70.0)
25.3 (77.5)
28.6 (83.5)
33.0 (91.4)
31.8 (89.2)
31.5 (88.7)
33.4 (92.1)
32.8 (91.0)
31.2 (88.2)
26.8 (80.2)
23.7 (74.7)
18.7 (65.7)
33.4 (92.1)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)
8.0 (46.4)
11.7 (53.1)
15.5 (59.9)
19.4 (66.9)
21.6 (70.9)
23.0 (73.4)
25.2 (77.4)
25.4 (77.7)
21.9 (71.4)
17.3 (63.1)
13.6 (56.5)
9.2 (48.6)
17.7 (63.8)
Daily mean °C (°F)
−0.5 (31.1)
2.8 (37.0)
6.6 (43.9)
10.5 (50.9)
13.1 (55.6)
15.5 (59.9)
17.5 (63.5)
17.4 (63.3)
14.4 (57.9)
9.8 (49.6)
4.8 (40.6)
0.4 (32.7)
9.4 (48.8)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)
−6.1 (21.0)
−3.3 (26.1)
0.4 (32.7)
4.1 (39.4)
7.5 (45.5)
10.9 (51.6)
12.6 (54.7)
12.4 (54.3)
10.1 (50.2)
5.5 (41.9)
−0.5 (31.1)
−5.0 (23.0)
4.1 (39.3)
Record low °C (°F)
−13.9 (7.0)
−11.7 (10.9)
−11.0 (12.2)
−2.6 (27.3)
−0.4 (31.3)
3.8 (38.8)
4.7 (40.5)
3.4 (38.1)
0.6 (33.1)
−4.3 (24.3)
−7.8 (18.0)
−12.5 (9.5)
−13.9 (7.0)
Average precipitation mm (inches)
6.0 (0.24)
10.0 (0.39)
35.2 (1.39)
68.6 (2.70)
134.9 (5.31)
155.0 (6.10)
116.7 (4.59)
91.6 (3.61)
114.5 (4.51)
83.9 (3.30)
17.3 (0.68)
4.4 (0.17)
838.1 (32.99)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm)
5.1
6.7
12.4
16.2
21.6
22.8
18.3
16.3
18.8
18.2
6.7
3.2
166.3
Average snowy days
8.6
9.7
7.3
1.5
0
0
0
0
0
0.2
2.9
5.2
35.4
Average relative humidity (%)
52
51
55
58
68
75
75
74
76
74
62
55
65
Mean monthly sunshine hours
168.4
151.4
158.7
167.4
168.5
141.2
161.5
161.8
135.7
140.1
158.5
171.1
1,884.3
Percent possible sunshine
53
48
42
43
39
33
37
40
37
40
51
55
43
Source: China Meteorological Administration [ 5] [ 6]
References