# Heishui County

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. The county has an area of 1,682 square miles (4,356 km$^2$) and its average elevation is 11,627 feet (3,544 m). As of 2016, the county has a population of 61,744.

## Administrative divisions

Heishui County has jurisdiction over 8 towns and 7 townships:
| 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 ||||||||||||||