# Hongyuan County

Gakog (Hongyuan) County (Tibetan: སྐ་ཆུ་རྫོང་། or སྐ་ཁོག་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 红原县) is a county in the north of Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. There is a river called Ka Chu/Gaqu (སྐ་ཆུ།) in the area and kog means "valley" or "area"; thus it means the area of the Ga River.
This is the only county under the Prefecture with entirely yak herding pastoralists. The average altitude above the sea level is 3,600 m (11,800 ft). About 8,398 square meter and about 40,000 people reside (2004) mostly Amdo Tibetan. The language is spoken is one of the most conservative dialect among the Amdo Tibetan varieties. The county seat is Kyungqu [zh] (a.k.a. Khyungchu).
Southwest University for Nationalities maintains the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Ecological Environmental Protection and Advanced Technology for Animal Husbandry in Hongyuan County.
The country is served by Aba Hongyuan Airport.

## Governance
### Hongyuan County Public Security Bureau

The Hongyuan County Public Security Bureau (Chinese: 红原县公安局) is the primary law enforcement agency in Hongyuan county. It operates 10 police stations and 1 Jail along with a traffic police unit, a forestry unit and a plains unit. As of 2016, the forestry unit had 16 officers.

#### Line of duty-deaths

On 15 March 2020, a officer of the forestry unit died due to duty-related illness.

### Hongyuan County Fire and Rescue Battalion

The Hongyuan County Fire and Rescue Battalion (Chinese: 红原县消防救援大队) provides firefighting and rescue services within the county.

## Climate

Hongyuan has a subarctic climate (Köppen Dwc) with short, mild summers and cold winters, although not as cold as subarctic climates at higher latitudes. It is affected by the Asian Monsoon.
Climate data for Hongyuan, elevation 3,492 m (11,457 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) | 15.4 (59.7) | 16.6 (61.9) | 19.6 (67.3) | 23.0 (73.4) | 24.6 (76.3) | 26.0 (78.8) | 25.7 (78.3) | 25.6 (78.1) | 24.9 (76.8) | 23.1 (73.6) | 15.4 (59.7) | 14.4 (57.9) | 26.0 (78.8) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 2.7 (36.9) | 4.7 (40.5) | 7.2 (45.0) | 10.9 (51.6) | 13.8 (56.8) | 16.0 (60.8) | 18.4 (65.1) | 18.2 (64.8) | 15.5 (59.9) | 10.9 (51.6) | 7.0 (44.6) | 3.7 (38.7) | 10.8 (51.4) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −8.8 (16.2) | −5.6 (21.9) | −1.3 (29.7) | 2.8 (37.0) | 6.4 (43.5) | 9.7 (49.5) | 11.5 (52.7) | 10.8 (51.4) | 7.9 (46.2) | 3.0 (37.4) | −2.7 (27.1) | −7.6 (18.3) | 2.2 (35.9) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −18.5 (−1.3) | −14.3 (6.3) | −7.7 (18.1) | −3.5 (25.7) | 0.4 (32.7) | 4.6 (40.3) | 5.8 (42.4) | 4.8 (40.6) | 2.5 (36.5) | −2.1 (28.2) | −9.5 (14.9) | −16.2 (2.8) | −4.5 (23.9) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −36.0 (−32.8) | −30.2 (−22.4) | −26.3 (−15.3) | −14.9 (5.2) | −14.8 (5.4) | −4.4 (24.1) | −2.6 (27.3) | −4.9 (23.2) | −6.7 (19.9) | −15.3 (4.5) | −26.6 (−15.9) | −30.7 (−23.3) | −36.0 (−32.8) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 7.3 (0.29) | 11.0 (0.43) | 26.5 (1.04) | 50.3 (1.98) | 107.6 (4.24) | 131.0 (5.16) | 122.1 (4.81) | 109.3 (4.30) | 111.6 (4.39) | 70.8 (2.79) | 11.7 (0.46) | 3.9 (0.15) | 763.1 (30.04) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 5.9 | 8.0 | 12.6 | 15.9 | 21.2 | 21.3 | 18.8 | 17.2 | 19.5 | 17.9 | 6.8 | 4.1 | 169.2 |
| Average snowy days | 8.1 | 10.6 | 16.8 | 16.0 | 8.6 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 2.3 | 13.9 | 9.0 | 5.7 | 93.2 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 58 | 59 | 65 | 68 | 72 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 79 | 77 | 66 | 59 | 69 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 215.4 | 186.6 | 199.0 | 203.1 | 196.1 | 165.5 | 201.5 | 206.6 | 168.9 | 171.4 | 210.9 | 225.7 | 2,350.7 |
| Percentage possible sunshine | 68 | 60 | 53 | 52 | 46 | 39 | 47 | 51 | 46 | 49 | 68 | 73 | 54 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration ||||||||||||||

## Administrative divisions

Hongyuan County has 6 townships and 4 townships:
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code |
| Towns ||||||
| Kyungqu town [zh; bo] (Khyungchu, Qiongxi) | 邛溪镇 | Qióngxī Zhèn | ཁྱུང་མཆུ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | khyung mchu grong rdal | 513233100 |
| Da'gyailing town [zh] (Sajinse, Shuajingsi) | 刷经寺镇 | Shuājīngsì Zhèn | ལྟ་རྒྱལ་གླིང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | lta rgyal gling grong rdal | 513233101 |
| Waqên town [zh] (Waqie) | 瓦切镇 | Wǎqiē Zhèn | སྦྲ་ཆེན་གྲོང་རྡལ། | sbra chen grong rdal | 513233102 |
| Amqog town [zh] (Anqog, Anqu) | 安曲镇 | Ānqǔ Zhèn | ཨ་མཆོག་གྲོང་རྡལ། | a mchog grong rdal | 513233103 |
| Sêrdêu Town (Sêrdiu, Sedi) | 色地镇 | Sèdì Zhèn | གསེར་རྡེའུ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | gser rde'u grong rdal | 513233104 |
| Lungsi town [zh] (Longriba, Longri) | 龙日镇 | Lòngrì Zhèn | ལུང་ཟི་གྲོང་རྡལ། | lung zi grong rdal | 513233105 |
| Townships ||||||
| Gyarong Township [zh] (Jiangrong) | 江茸乡 | Jiāngróng Xiāng | སྐྱ་རོང་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | skya rong yul tsho | 513233202 |
| Carima Township [zh] (Cha'erma) | 查尔玛乡 | Chá'ěrmǎ Xiāng | ཚ་རི་མ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | tsha ri ma yul tsho | 513233203 |
| Amoi Township [zh] (Amu) | 阿木乡 | Āmù Xiāng | ཨ་མོའི་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | a mo'i yul tsho | 513233205 |
| Mêwa Township [zh] (Maiwa) | 麦洼乡 | Màiwā Xiāng | རྨེ་བ་ཡུལ་ཚོ། | rme ba yul tsho | 513233207 |

## National priority protected sites

There is 1 National priority protected site in Hongyuan County.
* Aba Long March Relics [zh] - added as part of the 6th Batch of National Priority Protected Sites [zh]
** Yakouxia Mountain Red Army Martyrs Mausoleum [zh]