# Jiuzhaigou County

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. 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. The county seat, Nanping [zh], was created in 2013 by the merger of Yongle Town (永乐镇), Yongfeng Township (永丰乡), and Anle Township (安乐乡).
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). It has a total area of 2,041 square miles (5,286 km$^2$). As of 2015, the county's total population was 67,519.

## Administrative divisions

Jiuzhaigou County contains fives towns, seven townships, and two other township-level divisions.
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code |
| 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 1981–2010) :
| 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) | 37.5 (99.5) | 37.4 (99.3) | 35.7 (96.3) | 27.7 (81.9) | 23.7 (74.7) | 19.6 (67.3) | 37.5 (99.5) |
| 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 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 44 | 41 | 37 | 38 | 36 | 33 | 38 | 38 | 29 | 33 | 44 | 46 | 38 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration ||||||||||||||