Gucheng (Lijiang)

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Location of the Gucheng District (pink) in the district-free city of Lijiang (yellow) in the Yunnan Province of China

The Gucheng District ( Chinese古城 區 / 古城 区Pinyin Gǔchéng Qū, "Old Town District") is a district and seat of government in the prefecture-level city of Lijiang in the northwest of the Chinese province of Yunnan . It borders Dêqên in the north and Dali in the south . It has an area of ​​1,127 km² and at the end of 2012 had 150,000 inhabitants.

Gucheng is located on the upper reaches of the Jinsha Jiang River , where the relief merges from the Hengduan Shan Mountains into the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau . The district has a southern plateau climate with an average annual temperature of 12.6 ° C and an annual rainfall of 938.5 mm.

The Gucheng District is filled with buildings from the Tang , Song , Yuan , Ming and Qing Dynasties , the Yulong Xueshan Massif , the Tiger Leaping Gorge , the first bend of the Yangtze River , the Yufeng Temple , the Puji Temple and the culture of the Naxi minority a magnet for tourists from home and abroad.

Administrative structure

At the municipality level, the municipality consists of seven street districts , two large municipalities and two municipalities (one of which is a nationality municipality ). These are:

  • Dayan Street District (大 研 街道);
  • Xi'an Street District (西安 街道);
  • Shuhe street district (束 河 街道);
  • Road quarter Xianghe (祥和街道);
  • Jinshan Street (金山 街道);
  • Kainan Street District (开 南 街道);
  • Road quarter Wenhua (文化街道);
  • Greater community Jin'an (金安镇);
  • Greater community Qihe (七河镇);
  • Dadong Township (大 东乡);
  • Community Jinjiang of Bai (金江白族乡).

The district's seat of government is located in the Xi'an street district .

Coordinates: 26 ° 51 '  N , 100 ° 19'  E

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e 古城 区 概况 地图.行政 区划 网, September 25, 2014, accessed on August 21, 2018 (Chinese).