# Dawu County, Sichuan

Dawu County (Tibetan: རྟའུ་རྫོང་།), also written Tawu County or Daofu County (Chinese: 道孚县), is a county of northwestern Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, and as of 2001, had a population of 46,900 residing in an area of 7,546 square kilometres (2,914 sq mi). By road it is 219 km (136 mi) from Kangding, the prefectural seat, and 585 km (364 mi) from Chengdu, the provincial capital. It borders the counties of Xinlong to the west, Kangding and Yajiang to the south, and Jinchuan and Zamtang of Ngawa Prefecture as well as Luhuo to the north.
In January 1981 it was struck by an earthquake.

## Administrative divisions

Dawu County is divided into 7 towns and 12 townships:
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code |
| Towns ||||||
| Xêqu Town (Xianshui) | 鲜水镇 | Xiānshuǐ Zhèn | ཤེལ་ཆུ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | shel chu grong rdal | 513326100 |
| Pamai Town (Bamei) | 八美镇 | Bāměi Zhèn | བ་སྨད་གྲོང་རྡལ། | ba smad grong rdal | 513326101 |
| Xagzig Town (Yazhuo) | 亚卓镇 | Yàzhuó Zhèn | བཞག་བརྩིགས་གྲོང་རྡལ། | bzhag brtsigs grong rdal | 513326102 |
| Yukar Town (Yuke) | 玉科镇 | Yùkē Zhèn | གཡུ་མཁར་གྲོང་རྡལ | g.yu mkhar grong rdal | 513326104 |
| Zhungnyi Town (Zhongni) | 仲尼镇 | Zhòngní Zhèn | ཀྲུང་ཉི་གྲོང་རྡལ། | krung nyi grong rdal | 513326105 |
| Gartar Town (Taining) | 泰宁镇 | Tàiníng Zhèn | མགར་ཐར་གྲོང་རྡལ། | mgar thar grong rdal | 513326106 |
| Waxab Town (Wari) | 瓦日镇 | Wǎrì Zhèn | དབའ་ཞབས་གྲོང་རྡལ། | dba' zhabs grong rdal | 513326107 |
| Townships ||||||
| Masur Township (Mazi) | 麻孜乡 | Mázī Xiāng | མ་ཟུར་ཤང་། | ma zur shang | 513326201 |
| Kangsar Township (Kongse) | 孔色乡 | Kǒngsè Xiāng | ཁང་གསར་ཤང་། | khang gsar shang | 513326202 |
| Kugqa Township (Geka) | 葛卡乡 | Gěkǎ Xiāng | ཁུག་ཆ་ཤང་། | khug cha shang | 513326203 |
| Zhagtog Township (Zhatuo) | 扎拖乡 | Zhātuō Xiāng | བྲག་ཐོག་ཤང་། | brag thog shang | 513326207 |
| Qatang Township (Xiatuo) | 下拖乡 | Xiàtuō Xiāng | བྱ་ཐང་ཤང་། | bya thang shang | 513326208 |
| Mugri Township (Muru) | 木茹乡 | Mùrú Xiāng | སྨུག་རི་ཤང་། | smug ri shang | 513326210 |
| Jaggang Township (Jiasikong) | 甲斯孔乡 | Jiǎsīkǒng Xiāng | ལྕགས་སྐང་ཤང་། | lcags skang shang | 513326211 |
| Qumar Township (Qimei) | 七美乡 | Qīměi Xiāng | ཆུ་དམར་ཤང་། | chu dmar shang | 513326213 |
| Yungoin Township (Yi'ngoi, Yin'en) | 银恩乡 | Yín'ēn Xiāng | གཡུ་སྔོན་ཤང་། | g.yu sngon shang | 513326214 |
| Lungdain Township (Longdeng) | 龙灯乡 | Lóngdēng Xiāng | ལུང་བསྟན་ཡུལ། | lung bstan yul | 513326216 |
| Sêrka Township (Seka) | 色卡乡 | Sèkǎ Xiāng | གསེར་ཁ་ཤང་། | gser kha shang | 513326218 |
| Xarchong Township (Shachong) | 沙冲乡 | Shāchōng Xiāng | ཤར་གྲོང་ཤང་། | shar grong shang | 513326219 |

## Climate

Climate data for Dawu, elevation 3,009 m (9,872 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) | 22.4 (72.3) | 25.9 (78.6) | 29.9 (85.8) | 28.8 (83.8) | 31.6 (88.9) | 31.2 (88.2) | 33.4 (92.1) | 30.8 (87.4) | 30.3 (86.5) | 27.5 (81.5) | 22.9 (73.2) | 22.0 (71.6) | 33.4 (92.1) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 10.4 (50.7) | 12.8 (55.0) | 15.5 (59.9) | 18.4 (65.1) | 21.4 (70.5) | 23.0 (73.4) | 24.2 (75.6) | 24.3 (75.7) | 22.0 (71.6) | 18.1 (64.6) | 14.3 (57.7) | 10.8 (51.4) | 17.9 (64.3) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −1.4 (29.5) | 2.0 (35.6) | 5.7 (42.3) | 9.3 (48.7) | 12.8 (55.0) | 15.1 (59.2) | 16.2 (61.2) | 16.0 (60.8) | 13.6 (56.5) | 8.9 (48.0) | 3.1 (37.6) | −1.2 (29.8) | 8.3 (47.0) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −9.5 (14.9) | −6.2 (20.8) | −2.0 (28.4) | 2.0 (35.6) | 6.1 (43.0) | 9.8 (49.6) | 11.2 (52.2) | 10.7 (51.3) | 8.6 (47.5) | 3.1 (37.6) | −4.1 (24.6) | −8.8 (16.2) | 1.7 (35.1) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −21.7 (−7.1) | −14.7 (5.5) | −12.1 (10.2) | −6.1 (21.0) | −3.7 (25.3) | 0.8 (33.4) | 2.1 (35.8) | 1.9 (35.4) | −1.0 (30.2) | −6.4 (20.5) | −12.4 (9.7) | −24 (−11) | −24 (−11) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 2.2 (0.09) | 4.0 (0.16) | 11.7 (0.46) | 35.4 (1.39) | 67.9 (2.67) | 147.9 (5.82) | 126.6 (4.98) | 97.5 (3.84) | 110.8 (4.36) | 40.1 (1.58) | 5.0 (0.20) | 1.3 (0.05) | 650.4 (25.6) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 2.0 | 3.4 | 7.8 | 13.5 | 18.0 | 23.2 | 20.1 | 17.7 | 18.8 | 13.6 | 3.8 | 1.5 | 143.4 |
| Average snowy days | 3.7 | 5.4 | 6.3 | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 2.9 | 2.6 | 23.2 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 45 | 43 | 47 | 52 | 57 | 68 | 70 | 69 | 71 | 67 | 56 | 50 | 58 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 203.7 | 183.3 | 205.4 | 205.0 | 211.4 | 180.2 | 185.1 | 191.6 | 182.4 | 193.2 | 201.4 | 214.9 | 2,357.6 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 63 | 58 | 55 | 53 | 50 | 43 | 43 | 47 | 50 | 55 | 64 | 69 | 54 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration ||||||||||||||
Climate data for Bamei Town (1991–2018 normals) :
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 5.4 (41.7) | 8.2 (46.8) | 10.6 (51.1) | 13.3 (55.9) | 16.3 (61.3) | 17.0 (62.6) | 18.9 (66.0) | 18.7 (65.7) | 16.6 (61.9) | 12.6 (54.7) | 9.2 (48.6) | 6.1 (43.0) | 12.7 (54.9) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −4.1 (24.6) | −0.9 (30.4) | 2.2 (36.0) | 5.7 (42.3) | 9.4 (48.9) | 11.3 (52.3) | 13.1 (55.6) | 12.5 (54.5) | 10.5 (50.9) | 5.9 (42.6) | 0.9 (33.6) | −3.2 (26.2) | 5.3 (41.5) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −13.6 (7.5) | −10.0 (14.0) | −6.1 (21.0) | −1.9 (28.6) | 2.5 (36.5) | 5.5 (41.9) | 7.3 (45.1) | 6.3 (43.3) | 4.5 (40.1) | −0.7 (30.7) | −7.5 (18.5) | −12.5 (9.5) | −2.2 (28.1) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 1.0 (0.04) | 4.1 (0.16) | 13.1 (0.52) | 33.0 (1.30) | 74.9 (2.95) | 149.1 (5.87) | 129.5 (5.10) | 112.6 (4.43) | 110.9 (4.37) | 45.1 (1.78) | 6.1 (0.24) | 1.9 (0.07) | 681.3 (26.83) |
| Source: Baidu ||||||||||||||