Chengguan (Karub)

Center of Chengguan

Mekong valley south of the core town

The large community of Chengguan ( Tibetan ཁྲིན་ ཀོན་ རྡལ་ Wylie khrin kon rdal ; Chin. 城关 镇 ; Pinyin: Chéngguān Zhèn ) is the seat of government of the Karub district and the city of Qamdo (Chamdo). Chengguan is located in the west of the Tibetan cultural region of Kham and in the east of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

The large community is about 500 km as the crow flies from Lhasa , with a road distance of 1120 km (south route) and 1030 km (north route). at an altitude of 3230 m on the Mekong (here Za Qu / Dza Chu), which is crossed by two highways in the village. It can be reached by plane from Bamda Airport, 130 km away from Lhasa and Chengdu .

Before the construction of modern traffic routes, the tea-horse route , Chinese Cha Ma Gu Dao (茶 马 古道), crossed the river, the northern branch from Chengdu in Sichuan and the southern branch from the tea regions of Yunnan united here. Further to the west, the route crossed the upper reaches of the Saluen , reached Lhasa and from there Bengal .

Climate table

Chengguan
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     1   8th -11     4th   10 -7     9   13 -3     17th   17th 1     41   21st 5     93   23 9     102   24 11     94   24 10     70   22nd 7th     25th   18th 1     5   12 -6     2   9 -10 Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source: wetterkontor.de

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Chengguan Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 7.8 9.5 12.8 16.6 20.6 23.0 24.0 23.5 21.6 17.7 12.1 8.7 O 16.5 Min. Temperature (° C) -10.8 -7.3 -3.0 1.0 5.2 8.8 10.5 9.7 7.1 1.4 -5.9 -10.1 O 0.6 Precipitation ( mm ) 1 4th 9 17th 41 93 102 94 70 25th 5 2 Σ 463 Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 6.3 6.1 6.1 6.5 7.1 6.7 6.4 6.5 6.4 6.6 6.7 6.6 O 6.5 Rainy days ( d ) 0 1 2 4th 8th 13 15th 13 12 5 1 1 Σ 75 Humidity ( % ) 36 36 38 42 46 57 64 65 66 56 42 40 O 49.1 Source: wetterkontor.de

Coordinates: 31 ° 8 '  N , 97 ° 11'  E