# Zhouqu County

Zhugqu County (Tibetan: འབྲུག་ཆུ་རྫོང་།), Zhugchu or Zhouqu (Chinese: 舟曲县) is a county in the eastern extremity of the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the south of Gansu Province, China, with the Bailong River flowing through its confines; it borders Sichuan province to the south. In 2010 its population was 134,000 people.
The word "Zhugqu" derived from the Tibetan name of Bailong River.

## 2010 mudslide

On 8 August 2010, deadly mudflows caused by torrential rain struck the county and killed at least 1,471 people. It has been said by some experts; such as Professor Fan Xiao, a Sichuan-based geologist; that the scale of the disaster was affected by deforestation and the construction of dams for hydro-electricity in the area.
According to historical records, Chengguan Town has been struck by 11 "devastating" mudflows since 1823.

## Administrative divisions

Zhouqu County is divided to 15 towns and 4 townships.
| Name | Simplified Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | Administrative division code |
| Towns ||||||
| Chengguan Town (Chêngoin) | 城关镇 | Liǔlín Zhèn | ཁྲེན་ཀོན་གྲོང་རྡལ། | khren kon grong rdal | 623023100 |
| Dachuan Town (Dachoin) | 大川镇 | Dàchuān Zhèn | ཏ་ཁྲོན་གྲོང་རྡལ། | ta khron grong rdal | 623023101 |
| Fengdie Town (Bündie) | 峰迭镇 | Fēngdié Zhèn | སྦུན་ཏིའེ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | sbun tiʼe grong rdal | 623023102 |
| Luzê Town (Lijie) | 立节镇 | Lìjié Zhèn | གླུ་རྩེད་གྲོང་རྡལ། | glu rtsed grong rdal | 623023103 |
| Dongshan Town (Dungshain) | 东山镇 | Dōngshān Zhèn | ཏུང་ཧྲན་གྲོང་རྡལ། | tung hran grong rdal | 623023104 |
| Qugarna Town (Qugaona) | 曲告纳镇 | Qūgàonà Zhèn | ཆུ་གར་ན་གྲོང་རྡལ། | chu gar na grong rdal | 623023105 |
| Poiyü Town (Boyü, Boyu) | 博峪镇 | Bóyù Zhèn | བོད་ཡུལ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | bod yul grong rdal | 623023106 |
| Bazong Town (Bazang) | 巴藏镇 | Bāzàng Zhèn | སྦྲ་རྫོང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | sbra rdzong grong rdal | 623023107 |
| Hanban Town (Hainbain) | 憨班镇 | Hānbān Zhèn | ཧན་པན་གྲོང་རྡལ། | han pan grong rdal | 623023108 |
| Pingding Town (Pinding) | 坪定镇 | Píngdìng Zhèn | ཕིན་ཏིང་གྲོང་རྡལ། | phin ting grong rdal | 623023109 |
| Goye Town (Goyai) | 果耶镇 | Guǒyē Zhèn | སྒོ་གཡས་གྲོང་རྡལ། | sgo g.yas grong rdal | 623023110 |
| Wuping Town (Wupin) | 武坪镇 | Wǔpíng Zhèn | ཝུའུ་ཕིན་གྲོང་རྡལ། | wuʼu phin grong rdal | 623023111 |
| Dagyü Town (Dayu) | 大峪镇 | Dàyù Zhèn | སྟག་ཡུལ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | stag yul grong rdal | 623023112 |
| Jiangpan Town (Jangpain) | 江盘镇 | Jiāngpán Zhèn | ཅང་ཕན་གྲོང་རྡལ། | cang phan grong rdal | 623023113 |
| Gongba Town | 拱坝镇 | Gǒngbà Zhèn | ཀོང་པ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | kong pa grong rdal | 623023114 |
| Townships ||||||
| Quwar Township (Quwa) | 曲瓦乡 | Qūwǎ Xiāng | ཆུ་བར་ཤང་། | chu bar shang | 623023200 |
| Nanyu Township (Nainyü) | 南峪乡 | Nányù Xiāng | ནན་ཡུས་ཤང་། | nan yus shang | 623023208 |
| Baleng Township (Balêng) | 八楞乡 | Bāléng Xiāng | པ་ལེང་ཤང་། | pa leng shang | 623023210 |
| Chagang Township (Qabgo) | 插岗乡 | Chāgǎng Xiāng | ཁྲ་ཀང་ཤང་། | khra kang shang | 623023212 |

## Climate

Climate data for Zhouqu, elevation 1,329 m (4,360 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) | 16.5 (61.7) | 25.3 (77.5) | 29.0 (84.2) | 32.9 (91.2) | 35.3 (95.5) | 38.2 (100.8) | 37.1 (98.8) | 38.0 (100.4) | 34.7 (94.5) | 27.9 (82.2) | 22.9 (73.2) | 20.6 (69.1) | 38.2 (100.8) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 6.9 (44.4) | 10.6 (51.1) | 15.7 (60.3) | 21.4 (70.5) | 25.0 (77.0) | 28.1 (82.6) | 30.1 (86.2) | 29.2 (84.6) | 24.1 (75.4) | 18.6 (65.5) | 13.7 (56.7) | 8.3 (46.9) | 19.3 (66.8) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 2.1 (35.8) | 5.5 (41.9) | 10.1 (50.2) | 15.1 (59.2) | 18.6 (65.5) | 21.9 (71.4) | 24.1 (75.4) | 23.4 (74.1) | 19.0 (66.2) | 13.9 (57.0) | 8.5 (47.3) | 3.0 (37.4) | 13.8 (56.8) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −1.7 (28.9) | 1.4 (34.5) | 5.7 (42.3) | 10.2 (50.4) | 13.7 (56.7) | 17.2 (63.0) | 19.6 (67.3) | 19.1 (66.4) | 15.5 (59.9) | 10.6 (51.1) | 4.8 (40.6) | −0.8 (30.6) | 9.6 (49.3) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −9.0 (15.8) | −6.5 (20.3) | −4.6 (23.7) | −0.5 (31.1) | 3.7 (38.7) | 9.3 (48.7) | 13.5 (56.3) | 11.8 (53.2) | 7.3 (45.1) | 0.0 (32.0) | −4.5 (23.9) | −9.6 (14.7) | −9.6 (14.7) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 1.9 (0.07) | 3.4 (0.13) | 14.4 (0.57) | 32.5 (1.28) | 57.3 (2.26) | 64.7 (2.55) | 70.5 (2.78) | 72.0 (2.83) | 59.2 (2.33) | 47.9 (1.89) | 6.1 (0.24) | 0.5 (0.02) | 430.4 (16.95) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 2.7 | 3.2 | 8.5 | 11.5 | 15.2 | 14.5 | 12.7 | 12.5 | 13.5 | 13.8 | 4.5 | 1.1 | 113.7 |
| Average snowy days | 5.4 | 3.5 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | 2.2 | 12.8 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 53 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 58 | 60 | 63 | 65 | 70 | 71 | 63 | 55 | 60 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 135.8 | 121.6 | 143.8 | 168.7 | 178.7 | 163.3 | 184.4 | 180.5 | 117.0 | 112.6 | 126.5 | 143.0 | 1,775.9 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 43 | 39 | 38 | 43 | 41 | 38 | 42 | 44 | 32 | 32 | 41 | 47 | 40 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration ||||||||||||||