Hongyuan County


Khyungchu County is a county in the north of Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. There is a river called Kachu in the area and khok means "valley" or "area"; thus it means the area of the Kachu River.
This is the only county under the Prefecture with entirely yak herding pastoralists. The average altitude above the sea level is. About 8,398 square meter and about 40,000 people reside mostly Amdo Tibetan. The language is spoken is also Amdo Tibetan. The county seat is Khyunchu Town.
Southwest University for Nationalities maintains the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Ecological Environmental Protection and Advanced Technology for Animal Husbandry in Hongyuan County.

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