# Luhuo County

Luhuo County or Zhaggo (Chinese: 炉霍县; Tibetan: བྲག་འགོ་རྫོང་།) is a county of Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

## History

On March 24, 1923, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck between Luhuo and Dawu and killed 4800 people.
On February 6, 1973, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake occurred near Zhaggo, a town in the county.

## Administrative divisions

Zhaggo County is divided into 4 towns and 11 townships:
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code |
| Towns ||||||
| Xindo Town (Xindu) | 新都镇 | Xīndū Zhèn | ཤིས་མདོ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | shis mdo grong rdal | 513327100 |
| Zhêhor Town (Zhuwo) | 朱倭镇 | Zhūwō Zhèn | ཏྲེ་ཧོར་གྲོང་རྡལ། | tre hor grong rdal | 513327101 |
| Xaratang Town (Xialatuo) | 虾拉沱镇 | Xiālātuó Zhèn | ཤ་རྭ་ཐང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | sha rwa thang grong rdal | 513327103 |
| Ligogdoima Town (Shangluokema) | 上罗柯马镇 | Shàngluókēmǎ Zhèn | ལི་ཀོག་སྟོད་མ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | li kog stod ma grong rdal | 513327104 |
| Townships ||||||
| Nyiba Township (Niba) | 泥巴乡 | Níbā Xiāng | སྙ་པ་ཤང་། | snya pa shang | 513327200 |
| Yardê Township (Yade) | 雅德乡 | Yǎdé Xiāng | ཡར་སྡེ་ཤང་། | yar sde shang | 513327201 |
| Norqung Township (Luoqiu) | 洛秋乡 | Luòqiū Xiāng | ནོར་ཆུང་ཤང་། | nor chung shang | 513327202 |
| Xinda Township (Rinda, Renda) | 仁达乡 | Réndá Xiāng | གཞི་མདའ་ཤང་། | gzhi mda' shang | 513327205 |
| Dando Township (Dandu) | 旦都乡 | Dàndū Xiāng | མདའ་མདོ་ཤང་། | mda' mdo shang | 513327207 |
| Conggo Township (Chonggu) | 充古乡 | Chōnggǔ Xiāng | མཚོ་འགོ་ཤང་། | mtsho 'go shang | 513327208 |
| Gêzê Township (Gengzhi) | 更知乡 | Gēngzhī Xiāng | དགེ་རྩེ་ཤང་། | dge rtse shang | 513327209 |
| Karnya Township (Karnyag, Kaniang) | 卡娘乡 | Kǎniáng Xiāng | མཁར་གཉའ་ཤང་། | mkhar gnya' shang | 513327210 |
| Zangdoi Township (Zongta) | 宗塔乡 | Zōngtǎ Xiāng | གཙང་སྟོད་ཤང་། | gtsang stod shang | 513327211 |
| Zangmai Township (Zongmai) | 宗麦乡 | Zōngmài Xiāng | གཙང་སྨད་ཤང་། | gtsang smad shang | 513327212 |
| Likogma Maima Township (Limai, Xialuokema) | 下罗柯马乡 | Xiàluókēmǎ Xiāng | ལི་ཁོག་མ་སྨད་མ་ཤང་། | li khog ma smad ma shang | 513327214 |

## Climate

Climate data for Luhuo, elevation 3,250 m (10,660 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) | 22.1 (71.8) | 21.9 (71.4) | 27.3 (81.1) | 28.9 (84.0) | 30.3 (86.5) | 31.0 (87.8) | 31.2 (88.2) | 30.1 (86.2) | 27.9 (82.2) | 26.3 (79.3) | 23.2 (73.8) | 20.0 (68.0) | 31.2 (88.2) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 8.6 (47.5) | 11.0 (51.8) | 13.7 (56.7) | 17.0 (62.6) | 20.1 (68.2) | 21.5 (70.7) | 22.6 (72.7) | 22.7 (72.9) | 20.4 (68.7) | 16.3 (61.3) | 12.5 (54.5) | 9.2 (48.6) | 16.3 (61.4) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −2.7 (27.1) | 0.6 (33.1) | 4.2 (39.6) | 7.8 (46.0) | 11.5 (52.7) | 13.9 (57.0) | 15.0 (59.0) | 14.6 (58.3) | 12.2 (54.0) | 7.4 (45.3) | 1.6 (34.9) | −2.6 (27.3) | 7.0 (44.5) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −10.8 (12.6) | −7.3 (18.9) | −3.1 (26.4) | 0.8 (33.4) | 4.9 (40.8) | 8.5 (47.3) | 9.8 (49.6) | 9.3 (48.7) | 7.1 (44.8) | 1.7 (35.1) | −5.4 (22.3) | −10.2 (13.6) | 0.4 (32.8) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −24.0 (−11.2) | −19.3 (−2.7) | −14.3 (6.3) | −7.2 (19.0) | −4.5 (23.9) | 0.0 (32.0) | 1.6 (34.9) | 0.5 (32.9) | −1.9 (28.6) | −9.3 (15.3) | −15.0 (5.0) | −21.7 (−7.1) | −24.0 (−11.2) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 4.0 (0.16) | 7.1 (0.28) | 19.8 (0.78) | 38.3 (1.51) | 78.0 (3.07) | 153.8 (6.06) | 140.2 (5.52) | 102.0 (4.02) | 108.6 (4.28) | 52.5 (2.07) | 7.2 (0.28) | 2.8 (0.11) | 714.3 (28.14) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 3.1 | 5.5 | 9.2 | 13.4 | 19.3 | 23.8 | 21.2 | 18.5 | 19.3 | 13.4 | 4.3 | 2.5 | 153.5 |
| Average snowy days | 4.9 | 7.7 | 10.7 | 5.8 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 2.5 | 5.2 | 3.9 | 41.5 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 42 | 43 | 48 | 53 | 58 | 69 | 71 | 71 | 72 | 67 | 54 | 47 | 58 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 208.0 | 185.3 | 214.1 | 214.9 | 216.7 | 185.9 | 188.0 | 188.9 | 177.9 | 183.9 | 203.9 | 218.2 | 2,385.7 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 65 | 59 | 57 | 55 | 51 | 44 | 44 | 46 | 49 | 53 | 65 | 70 | 55 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration ||||||||||||||