Pasho County 八宿县 •དཔའ་ཤོད་རྫོང་། Baxoi, Pashö, Pashoi, Pashoe, Pashu | |
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| Baxoi County | |
 TheKangri Karpo in Baxoi County | |
.png) Location of Baxoi County (red) in Chamdo City (yellow) and the Tibet Autonomous Region | |
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| Coordinates:30°3′25″N96°55′7″E / 30.05694°N 96.91861°E /30.05694; 96.91861 | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Tibet |
| Prefecture-level city | Chamdo |
| County seat | Baima (Pasho) |
| Area | |
• Total | 12,328.31 km2 (4,759.99 sq mi) |
| Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 43,538 |
| • Density | 3.5/km2 (9.1/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Website | basu |
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| Simplified Chinese | 八宿县 | ||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 八宿縣 | ||||||||||
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| Tibetan | དཔའ་ཤོད་རྫོང་། | ||||||||||
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Pasho County[2][a] orBaxoi County (Tibetan:དཔའ་ཤོད་རྫོང་།;simplified Chinese:八宿县;traditional Chinese:八宿縣;pinyin:Bāsù Xiàn) is acounty under the administration of theprefecture-level city ofChamdo in theTibet Autonomous Region ofChina. The county seat is atPema, which is also called the "Pasho Town".[4] It contains thePomda Monastery andRakwa Tso lake. As of the2020 Chinese Census, Pasho County has a population of 43,538.[1]
The area of present-day Pasho County belonged to theTibetan Empire, around the same time as theTang dynasty's existence.[5]
During theYuan dynasty, the area was incorporated as part of theBureau of Buddhist and Tibetan Affairs.[5]
During theMing dynasty, the area was organized under thetusi ofMo'erkan [zh].[5]
The PashoLarang [zh] was established in 1694.[5] The TibetanKashag placed it under the control of theKundeling Monastery, located inLhasa, in 1725.[5] Later, under the administration of theQing dynasty, the area was placed under the jurisdiction ofEnda County [zh].[5]
In 1912, Pasho was established as azong [zh].[5]
In 1951, thePeople's Republic of China established a local government in the area.[5] In May 1959, the area was reorganized as Pasho County.[5] The county seat was moved fromTanggar toBaima in 1964,[5] where it remains today.
Pasho County is located withinChamdo, in the eastern part of theTibet Autonomous Region.[6] Thecounty itself is located within the south of Chamdo.[6] It bordersZogong County andZhag'yab County to the east,Zayu County to the south,Lhorong County andBomê County to the west, andKarub District andRiwoche County to the north.[6] Pasho County has a maximum east-west distance of 112 kilometres (70 mi) and a maximum north-south distance of 150 kilometres (93 mi).[6]
The county is highly mountainous, with an average elevation of about 3,260 metres (10,700 ft) above sea level.[6] Pasho County contains theBrahmaputra–Salween water divide. The Ngajuk La pass (29°40′07″N96°43′05″E / 29.6687°N 96.7181°E /29.6687; 96.7181 (Ngajuk La)) is on the divide. To the north, Ling Chu flows north and east draning into Salween. To the south,Parlung Tsangpo flows south and west to drain into theTsangpo River (the Tibetan section of Brahmaputra).[7][8] Pasho County hosts theRakwa Tso lake and theLaigu Glacier [zh].[6]
Pasho town, owing to the strongrain shadow of local mountains surrounding the deep gorge in which it lies, has acool semi-arid climate (KöppenBSk), being slightly warmer due to less high altitude and substantially drier than most of the eastern "river region" of Tibet – for instance its annual rainfall is only about half that ofLhasa. Summers are warm and showery, whilst winters are cool by day, freezing by night, and extremely dry.
| Climate data for Pasho, elevation 3,260 m (10,700 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 18.4 (65.1) | 19.6 (67.3) | 25.0 (77.0) | 25.4 (77.7) | 30.3 (86.5) | 31.9 (89.4) | 33.4 (92.1) | 31.6 (88.9) | 32.0 (89.6) | 27.9 (82.2) | 22.0 (71.6) | 17.7 (63.9) | 33.4 (92.1) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 9.1 (48.4) | 11.2 (52.2) | 13.8 (56.8) | 17.2 (63.0) | 21.6 (70.9) | 25.5 (77.9) | 26.1 (79.0) | 25.3 (77.5) | 24.1 (75.4) | 19.2 (66.6) | 14.1 (57.4) | 10.3 (50.5) | 18.1 (64.6) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 1.3 (34.3) | 4.0 (39.2) | 6.9 (44.4) | 10.5 (50.9) | 15.2 (59.4) | 19.0 (66.2) | 19.3 (66.7) | 18.4 (65.1) | 17.1 (62.8) | 12.1 (53.8) | 6.2 (43.2) | 2.0 (35.6) | 11.0 (51.8) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −5.3 (22.5) | −2.4 (27.7) | 1.2 (34.2) | 5.1 (41.2) | 9.7 (49.5) | 14.0 (57.2) | 14.4 (57.9) | 13.6 (56.5) | 11.9 (53.4) | 6.4 (43.5) | −0.3 (31.5) | −4.7 (23.5) | 5.3 (41.6) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −14.9 (5.2) | −10.9 (12.4) | −8.5 (16.7) | −3.6 (25.5) | 0.6 (33.1) | 4.5 (40.1) | 7.4 (45.3) | 5.1 (41.2) | 1.0 (33.8) | −4.3 (24.3) | −9.5 (14.9) | −16.9 (1.6) | −16.9 (1.6) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 0.3 (0.01) | 1.9 (0.07) | 8.5 (0.33) | 18.6 (0.73) | 21.5 (0.85) | 29.0 (1.14) | 62.6 (2.46) | 58.6 (2.31) | 31.9 (1.26) | 14.3 (0.56) | 2.6 (0.10) | 1.3 (0.05) | 251.1 (9.87) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 0.1 mm) | 0.5 | 1.4 | 3.8 | 6.2 | 6.6 | 8.9 | 15.0 | 15.4 | 8.9 | 4.9 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 73.4 |
| Average snowy days | 1.2 | 2.4 | 4.0 | 2.0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 12.7 |
| Averagerelative humidity (%) | 26 | 27 | 33 | 40 | 39 | 43 | 52 | 56 | 49 | 41 | 32 | 29 | 39 |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 212.9 | 223.8 | 252.8 | 245.7 | 260.9 | 232.9 | 201.4 | 199.4 | 218.9 | 233.1 | 216.8 | 207.6 | 2,706.2 |
| Percentagepossible sunshine | 65 | 71 | 68 | 63 | 61 | 55 | 47 | 49 | 60 | 67 | 69 | 66 | 62 |
| Source:China Meteorological Administration[9][10] | |||||||||||||
Pasho County is divided into 4towns and 10townships.
| Name | Chinese | Hanyu Pinyin | Tibetan | Wylie | ||
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| Baima (Pema, Pasho) | 白玛镇 | Báimǎ zhèn | པད་མ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | pad ma grong rdal | ||
| Bangda | 帮达镇 | Bāngdá zhèn | སྤང་མདའ་གྲོང་རྡལ། | spang mda' grong rdal | ||
| Rawu | 然乌镇 | Ránwū zhèn | རྭ་འོག་གྲོང་རྡལ། | rwa 'og grong rdal | ||
| Tanggar | 同卡镇 | Tóngkǎ zhèn | ཐང་དཀར་གྲོང་རྡལ། | thang dkar grong rdal | ||
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| Korqên Township [zh] | 郭庆乡 | Guōqìng xiāng | འཁོར་ཆེན་ཤང་། | 'khor chen shang | ||
| Lagê Township [zh] | 拉根乡 | Lāgēn xiāng | གླ་སྐེ་ཤང་། | gla ske shang | ||
| Yiqên Township [zh] | 益庆乡 | Yìqìng xiāng | ཡིད་ཆེན་ཤང་། | yid chen shang | ||
| Jirong Township [zh] | 集中乡 | Jízhōng xiāng | དཀྱིལ་གྲོང་ཤང་། | dkyil grong shang | ||
| Karwa Pêkyim Township [zh] | 卡瓦白庆乡 | Kǎwǎbáiqìng xiāng | མཁར་བ་འཕེལ་ཁྱིམ་ཤང་། | mkhar ba 'phel khyim shang | ||
| Gyêda Township [zh] | 吉达乡 | Jídá xiāng | སྐྱེ་མདའ་ཤང་། | skye mda' shang | ||
| Gyari Township | 夏里乡 | Xiàlǐ xiāng | སྐྱ་རི་ཤང་། | skya ri shang | ||
| Yangpa Township [zh] | 拥乡 | Yōng xiāng | ཡངས་པ་ཤང་། | yangs pa shang | ||
| Wa Township [zh] | 瓦乡 | Wǎ xiāng | ཝ་ཤང་། | wa shang | ||
| Lingka Township | 林卡乡 | Línkǎ xiāng | གླིང་ཁ་ཤང་། | gling kha shang | ||
Per the2020 Chinese Census, Pasho County has a population of 43,538,[1] up from the 39,021 recorded in the2010 Chinese Census.[5] Pasho County had a population of 38,170 as of the2000 Chinese Census.[5]
