{{short description|County in Gansu, China}} {{Infobox settlement |name = Luqu County |native_name = {{bo-textonly|ཀླུ་ཆུ་རྫོང་།}} · {{lang|zh-hans|碌曲县}} |postal_code =747200 |postal_code_type = Postal code |settlement_type = County |image_skyline = Langmusi - 6.jpg |imagesize = |image_caption = Kirti Namgyel Dechen Ling (Taktsang Lhamo Monastery) |image_map = Location of Luqu within Gansu (China).png |map_caption = Luqu County (pink) within Gannan Prefecture (yellow) and Gansu |pushpin_map = Gansu#China |pushpin_label = Luqu |pushpin_label_position = |coor_pinpoint = Luqu government |coordinates = {{coord|34.5909|N|102.4896|E|type:adm3rd_region:CN-62_source:Gaode|format=dms|display=it}} |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = China |subdivision_type1 = Province |subdivision_name1 = Gansu |subdivision_type2 = Autonomous prefecture |subdivision_name2 = Gannan | seat_type = County seat | seat = Lhamo (Langmusi) |area_code = |area_land_km2 = |area_total_km2 =5298.6 |area_water_km2 = |population_as_of = 2020 |population_density_km2 = auto |population_total =35871 | population_footnotes = <ref>{{cite web |url = http://tjj.gnzrmzf.gov.cn/info/1194/5848.htm |title =甘南州第七次全国人口普查公报 |publisher = Government of Gannan Prefecture |language = zh |date = 2021-05-27 }}</ref> |leader_name = |leader_title = |elevation_ft = |elevation_m = |elevation_max_m = |elevation_min_m = |timezone = China Standard |utc_offset = +8 |website = {{URL|http://www.luqu.gov.cn/}} }} {{Infobox Chinese |order=st |s=碌曲县 |t=碌曲縣 |p=Lùqū Xiàn |tib={{bo-textonly|ཀླུ་ཆུ་རྫོང་།}} |wylie=klu chu rdzong<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=G2201|title=klu chu rdzong. TBRC Resource ID G2201|website=Buddhist Digital Resource Center|access-date=2017-10-05}}</ref> |zwpy=Luqu Zong }} '''Luqu County''' ({{lang-zh|s=碌曲县}}, {{bo|t=ཀླུ་ཆུ་རྫོང་།}}) is a county of the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the south of Gansu province, China, bordering the provinces of Sichuan to the southeast and Qinghai to the west. Its postal code is 717200, and in 1999 its population was 30,039 people.<ref>[http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/work/downloads/faqs/1999_pop_faq.html China Historical GIS]</ref> The word "Luqu" derived from the Tibetan name of Tao River.
Kirti Namgyel Dechen Ling (Ganden Shedrub Pekar Drolwailing), a Gelug monastery located in Lhamo (Langmusi), was founded in 1748. It became the seat of the Kirti incarnation line.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tbrc.org/#!rid=G3278|title=stag tshang lha mo dgon, TBRC Resource ID G3278|website=Buddhist Digital Resource Center|access-date=2017-10-05|quote=(also called: stag tshang lha mo dgon, lha mo dgon, stag tshang lha mo gser khri dgon, dga' ldan bshad sgrub pad dkar grol ba'i gling, stag tshang lha mo gse khri dgon dga' ldan bshad sgrub pad dkar grol ba'i gling, {{lang|zh-hans|郎木寺, 噶丹雪珠贝噶卓卫林}}, langmu si)}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://treasuryoflives.org/en/institution/Kirti-Namgyel-Dechen-Ling|title=Kirti Namgyel Dechen Ling|work=The Treasury of Lives|access-date=2017-10-05|language=en}}</ref>
==Administrative divisions== Luqu County is divided to 5 towns and 2 townships.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.stats.gov.cn/tjsj/tjbz/tjyqhdmhcxhfdm/2019/ |title = 统计用区划代码 www.stats.gov.cn |publisher = XZQH |language = zh |access-date = 2012-05-26}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" align="center" style="width:50%; border="1" |- ! Name ! Simplified Chinese ! Hanyu Pinyin ! Tibetan ! Wylie ! Administrative division code |- | colspan="7" style="text-align:center; background:#d3d3d3;"|'''Towns''' |---------- | Lhamo Town<br>(Langmusi) | {{lang|zh-hans|郎木寺镇}} | {{Transliteration|zh|Lángmùsì Zhèn}} | {{bo-textonly|ལྷ་མོ་གྲོང་རྡལ།}} | {{Transliteration|bo|lha mo grong rdal}} | 623026100 |- | Ma'ngê Town<br>(Ma'ai) | {{lang|zh-hans|玛艾镇}} | {{Transliteration|zh|Mǎ'ài Zhèn}} | {{bo-textonly|མ་ངེ་གྲོང་རྡལ།}} | {{Transliteration|bo|ma nge grong rdal}} | 623026101 |- | Xicang Town | {{lang|zh-hans|西仓镇}} | {{Transliteration|zh|Xīcāng Zhèn}} | {{bo-textonly|ཤིས་ཚང་གྲོང་རྡལ།}} | {{Transliteration|bo|shis tshang grong rdal}} | 623026102 |- | Co'nyin Town<br>(Gahai) | {{lang|zh-hans|尕海镇}} | {{Transliteration|zh|Gǎhǎi Zhèn}} | {{bo-textonly|མཚོ་ཉིན་གྲོང་རྡལ།}} | {{Transliteration|bo|mtsho nyin grong rdal}} | 623026103 |- | Samca Town<br>(Shuangcha) | {{lang|zh-hans|双岔镇}} | {{Transliteration|zh|Shuāngchà Zhèn}} | {{bo-textonly|ཟམ་ཚ་གྲོང་རྡལ།}} | {{Transliteration|bo|zam tsha grong rdal}} | 623026104 |- | colspan="7" style="text-align:center; background:#d3d3d3;"|'''Townships''' |---------- | Larigü Township<br>(Larenguan) | {{lang|zh-hans|拉仁关乡}} | {{Transliteration|zh|Lārénguān Xiāng}} | {{bo-textonly|བླ་རི་མགུལ་ཤང་།}} | {{Transliteration|bo|bla ri mgul shang}} | 623026202 |- | Ala Township | {{lang|zh-hans|阿拉乡}} | {{Transliteration|zh|Ālā Xiāng}} | {{bo-textonly|ཨ་ལ་ཤང་།}} | {{Transliteration|bo|a la shang}} | 623026204 |- |}
==Climate==
{{Weather box|width=auto |metric first=y |single line=y |collapsed = Y |location = Luqu, elevation {{convert|3191|m|ft|abbr=on}}, (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) |Jan high C = 2.7 |Feb high C = 5.2 |Mar high C = 8.4 |Apr high C = 12.6 |May high C = 15.5 |Jun high C = 17.9 |Jul high C = 20.2 |Aug high C = 20.1 |Sep high C = 16.5 |Oct high C = 11.7 |Nov high C = 7.8 |Dec high C = 4.1 |Jan mean C = -8.2 |Feb mean C = -4.9 |Mar mean C = -0.5 |Apr mean C = 4.2 |May mean C = 7.8 |Jun mean C = 11.0 |Jul mean C = 13.1 |Aug mean C = 12.5 |Sep mean C = 9.0 |Oct mean C = 3.6 |Nov mean C = -2.3 |Dec mean C = -7.0 |Jan low C = -16.1 |Feb low C = -12.4 |Mar low C = -7.0 |Apr low C = -2.3 |May low C = 1.8 |Jun low C = 5.6 |Jul low C = 7.6 |Aug low C = 7.3 |Sep low C = 4.3 |Oct low C = -1.6 |Nov low C = -9.0 |Dec low C = -14.6 |Jan record high C = 16.2 |Jan record low C = -26.1 |Feb record high C = 17.2 |Feb record low C = -24.2 |Mar record high C = 22.3 |Mar record low C = -22.9 |Apr record high C = 26.6 |Apr record low C = -12.9 |May record high C = 26.4 |May record low C = -9.4 |Jun record high C = 26.4 |Jun record low C = -3.1 |Jul record high C = 29.8 |Jul record low C = -0.6 |Aug record high C = 28.8 |Aug record low C = -3.0 |Sep record high C = 28.0 |Sep record low C = -6.0 |Oct record high C = 24.4 |Oct record low C = -14.3 |Nov record high C = 16.9 |Nov record low C = -19.8 |Dec record high C = 16.4 |Dec record low C = -25.8 |year high C = |year low C = |year high F = |year low F = |precipitation colour = green |Jan precipitation mm = 5.3 |Feb precipitation mm = 6.5 |Mar precipitation mm = 16.8 |Apr precipitation mm = 31.6 |May precipitation mm = 73.5 |Jun precipitation mm = 91.8 |Jul precipitation mm = 119.1 |Aug precipitation mm = 112.3 |Sep precipitation mm = 95.4 |Oct precipitation mm = 47.1 |Nov precipitation mm = 7.3 |Dec precipitation mm = 2.2 |Jan humidity = 51 |Feb humidity = 52 |Mar humidity = 57 |Apr humidity = 60 |May humidity = 65 |Jun humidity = 71 |Jul humidity = 74 |Aug humidity = 76 |Sep humidity = 77 |Oct humidity = 72 |Nov humidity = 60 |Dec humidity = 51 |unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm |Jan precipitation days = 4.6 |Feb precipitation days = 6.1 |Mar precipitation days = 9.8 |Apr precipitation days = 11.9 |May precipitation days = 17.2 |Jun precipitation days = 20.0 |Jul precipitation days = 17.8 |Aug precipitation days = 17.4 |Sep precipitation days = 18.0 |Oct precipitation days = 14.8 |Nov precipitation days = 4.7 |Dec precipitation days = 2.7 |year precipitation days = |Jan sun = 202.5 |Feb sun = 183.1 |Mar sun = 198.9 |Apr sun = 203.3 |May sun = 201.4 |Jun sun = 177.6 |Jul sun = 193.4 |Aug sun = 190.4 |Sep sun = 149.4 |Oct sun = 175.4 |Nov sun = 204.6 |Dec sun = 211.0 |year sun = | Jan percentsun = 64 | Feb percentsun = 59 | Mar percentsun = 53 | Apr percentsun = 52 | May percentsun = 46 | Jun percentsun = 41 | Jul percentsun = 44 | Aug percentsun = 46 | Sep percentsun = 41 | Oct percentsun = 51 | Nov percentsun = 67 | Dec percentsun = 69 | year percentsun = |Jan snow days = 7.4 |Feb snow days = 8.9 |Mar snow days = 13.7 |Apr snow days = 11.3 |May snow days = 4.8 |Jun snow days = 0.6 |Jul snow days = 0.1 |Aug snow days = 0 |Sep snow days = 1.1 |Oct snow days = 9.8 |Nov snow days = 6.9 |Dec snow days = 5.3 |year snow days = |source 1 = China Meteorological Administration<ref name="cma graphical">{{cite web |url=http://data.cma.cn/data/weatherBk.html |script-title=zh:中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data |publisher=China Meteorological Administration |language = zh-hans |access-date=27 August 2023}}</ref><ref> {{cite web|url=https://experience.arcgis.com/template/e724038fda394e9d9b7921f10fd1aa55/page/%E7%BA%AF%E8%A1%A8%E6%A0%BC%E7%BB%9F%E8%AE%A1-(%E5%AF%B9%E6%AF%948110%E5%8F%98%E5%8C%96)/?org=UQmaps |script-title=zh:中国气象数据网|publisher=China Meteorological Administration |language = zh-hans | access-date =27 August 2023}}</ref> }}
==Transport== *China National Highway 213
==See also== * List of administrative divisions of Gansu
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{commons category|Luqu}}
{{County-level divisions of Gansu}} {{authority control}}
Luqu County Category:Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
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