Luding (Garzê)

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Iron bridge over the Dadu He river .
The location of Luding County in Sichuan Province.

Luding County ( Tibetan : ལྕགས་ ཟམ ། , transcription after Wylie : lcags zam , also Cagsam ; Chinese  泸定 县 , Pinyin Lúdìng Xiàn ), named after the iron bridge located there, belongs to the Garzê Autonomous District of the Tibetans in the Chinese province of Sichuan . Luding has an area of ​​2,165 km² and around 80,000 inhabitants (end of 2004). In the 2000 census, 77,855 inhabitants were counted.

The iron chain bridge , Tib .: lcags zam , has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (1-22) since 1961 .

Administrative structure

At the community level, Luding is made up of seven large communities and five communities . These are:

  • Large community Luqiao (泸 桥镇), 19,459 inhabitants (2000), capital, seat of the county government;
  • Lengqi Municipality (冷 碛 镇), 8,900 inhabitants (2000);
  • Xinglong Municipality (兴隆 镇), 9,522 inhabitants (2000);
  • Moxi municipality (磨 西 镇), 6,794 inhabitants (2000);
  • Pengba municipality (烹 坝镇), 4,156 inhabitants (2000);
  • Greater community Yanzigou (燕子沟镇) (formerly Xinxing community新兴乡), 4,568 inhabitants (2000);
  • Large municipality of Detuo (得 妥 镇), 6,102 inhabitants (2000).
  • Lan'an Municipality (岚 安 乡), population 2,789 (2000);
  • Community Tianba (田坝乡), 4,124 inhabitants (2000);
  • Chuni municipality (杵 坭 乡), 2,966 inhabitants (2000);
  • Community Jiajun (加郡乡), 3,873 inhabitants (2000);
  • Community Dewei (德威乡), 4,602 inhabitants (2000);

Ethnic breakdown of the population of Luding (2000)

In the 2000 census, 77,855 inhabitants were counted in Luding.

Name of the people Residents proportion of
Han 66,066 84.86%
Tibetans 7,834 10.06%
Yi 3,424 4.4%
Mongols 253 0.32%
Others 278 0.36%

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Coordinates: 29 ° 45 '  N , 102 ° 9'  E