# Gyaca County

Gyaca County (Tibetan: རྒྱ་ཚ་རྫོང་།; Chinese: 加查县) is a county of Shannan located in the south-east of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

## Geography

Gyatsa County is in the south of Tibet, stretching from the Podrang La pass along the southern side of the Brahmaputra River downstream to Pamda which is just to the southwest of Daklha Gampo, across the Brahmaputra. The county capital is in the town of Gyaca or Drumpa (46 km or 29 mi west of Pamda) which is alongside the Drakpo Dratsang Monastery. It is renowned for its walnuts and apricots.
Lhamo La-tso is the name of a small oval lake in the area. It is also called "Oracle Lake", as it is where senior Tibetan monks go for visions to assist in the discovery of reincarnations of the Dalai Lamas is located in Gyaca County.

## Administrative divisions

Gyaca County contains 2 towns and 5 townships.
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie |
| Towns |||||
| Gyaca Town | 加查镇 | ‹See RfD› Jiāchá zhèn | རྒྱ་ཚ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | ‹See RfD› rgya tsha grong rdal |
| Ngarrab Town | 安绕镇 | ‹See RfD› Ānrào zhèn | མངར་རབ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | ‹See RfD› mngar rab grong rdal |
| Townships |||||
| Lhasöl Township | 拉绥乡 | ‹See RfD› Lāsuí xiāng | ལྷ་གསོལ་ཤང་། | ‹See RfD› lha gsol shang |
| Chêju Township | 崔久乡 | ‹See RfD› Cuījiǔ xiāng | ཆེས་བཅུ་ཤང་། | ‹See RfD› ches bcu shang |
| Ba Township | 坝乡 | ‹See RfD› Bà xiāng | སྦྲ་ཤང་། | ‹See RfD› sbra shang |
| Lingda Township | 冷达乡 | ‹See RfD› Lěngdá xiāng | གླིང་མདའ་ཤང་། | ‹See RfD› gling mda' shang |
| Lholing Township | 洛林乡 | ‹See RfD› Luòlín xiāng | ལྷོ་གླིང་ཤང་། | ‹See RfD› lho gling shang |

## Climate

Climate data for Gyaca, elevation 3,260 m (10,700 ft), (1991–2020 normals) :
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 10.9 (51.6) | 13.3 (55.9) | 16.1 (61.0) | 18.9 (66.0) | 22.1 (71.8) | 25.1 (77.2) | 24.6 (76.3) | 24.0 (75.2) | 22.9 (73.2) | 20.2 (68.4) | 16.1 (61.0) | 12.1 (53.8) | 18.9 (66.0) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 0.5 (32.9) | 3.5 (38.3) | 7.0 (44.6) | 10.1 (50.2) | 13.6 (56.5) | 16.7 (62.1) | 16.9 (62.4) | 16.4 (61.5) | 14.9 (58.8) | 10.7 (51.3) | 5.1 (41.2) | 1.0 (33.8) | 9.7 (49.5) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −7.9 (17.8) | −5.1 (22.8) | −0.9 (30.4) | 3.0 (37.4) | 7.1 (44.8) | 11.2 (52.2) | 12.3 (54.1) | 11.8 (53.2) | 10.1 (50.2) | 3.8 (38.8) | −2.8 (27.0) | −7.0 (19.4) | 3.0 (37.3) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 1.2 (0.05) | 2.4 (0.09) | 10.4 (0.41) | 24.0 (0.94) | 44.3 (1.74) | 84.8 (3.34) | 149.6 (5.89) | 124.2 (4.89) | 66.9 (2.63) | 13.5 (0.53) | 2.7 (0.11) | 0.4 (0.02) | 524.4 (20.64) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 1.1 | 1.9 | 5.5 | 10.1 | 14.3 | 19.8 | 23.8 | 22.1 | 18.2 | 5.0 | 1.6 | 0.3 | 123.7 |
| Average snowy days | 2.1 | 3.6 | 6.9 | 2.2 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 17.8 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 32 | 33 | 39 | 46 | 52 | 60 | 69 | 69 | 67 | 53 | 40 | 36 | 50 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 234.2 | 223.1 | 234.2 | 225.5 | 226.5 | 200.5 | 182.2 | 190.1 | 197.2 | 245.6 | 245.6 | 233.3 | 2,638 |
| Percentage possible sunshine | 72 | 70 | 63 | 58 | 54 | 48 | 43 | 47 | 54 | 70 | 77 | 73 | 61 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration ||||||||||||||

## Footnotes

* ↑ Tibet: Prefectures, Cities, Districts and Counties
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* ↑ 中国历代行政区划: 公元前 211年--公元 1991年 (in Chinese). 中国华侨出版社. 1996. p. 751. ISBN 978-7-80120-076-1. Retrieved 2025-03-10.
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