Luhuo County or Zhaggo (Chinese: 炉霍县; Tibetan: བྲག་འགོ་རྫོང་།) is a county of Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of the Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

History

On March 24, 1923, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck between Luhuo and Dawu and killed 4800 people.

On February 6, 1973, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake occurred near Zhaggo, a town in the county.

Administrative divisions

Zhaggo County is divided into 4 towns and 11 townships:

NameSimplified ChineseHanyu PinyinTibetanWylieAdministrative division code
Towns
Xindo Town (Xindu)新都镇Xīndū Zhènཤིས་མདོ་གྲོང་རྡལ།shis mdo grong rdal513327100
Zhêhor Town (Zhuwo)朱倭镇Zhūwō Zhènཏྲེ་ཧོར་གྲོང་རྡལ།tre hor grong rdal513327101
Xaratang Town (Xialatuo)虾拉沱镇Xiālātuó Zhènཤ་རྭ་ཐང་གྲོང་རྡལ།sha rwa thang grong rdal513327103
Ligogdoima Town (Shangluokema)上罗柯马镇Shàngluókēmǎ Zhènལི་ཀོག་སྟོད་མ་གྲོང་རྡལ།li kog stod ma grong rdal513327104
Townships
Nyiba Township (Niba)泥巴乡Níbā Xiāngསྙ་པ་ཤང་།snya pa shang513327200
Yardê Township (Yade)雅德乡Yǎdé Xiāngཡར་སྡེ་ཤང་།yar sde shang513327201
Norqung Township (Luoqiu)洛秋乡Luòqiū Xiāngནོར་ཆུང་ཤང་།nor chung shang513327202
Xinda Township (Rinda, Renda)仁达乡Réndá Xiāngགཞི་མདའ་ཤང་།gzhi mda' shang513327205
Dando Township (Dandu)旦都乡Dàndū Xiāngམདའ་མདོ་ཤང་།mda' mdo shang513327207
Conggo Township (Chonggu)充古乡Chōnggǔ Xiāngམཚོ་འགོ་ཤང་།mtsho 'go shang513327208
Gêzê Township (Gengzhi)更知乡Gēngzhī Xiāngདགེ་རྩེ་ཤང་།dge rtse shang513327209
Karnya Township (Karnyag, Kaniang)卡娘乡Kǎniáng Xiāngམཁར་གཉའ་ཤང་།mkhar gnya' shang513327210
Zangdoi Township (Zongta)宗塔乡Zōngtǎ Xiāngགཙང་སྟོད་ཤང་།gtsang stod shang513327211
Zangmai Township (Zongmai)宗麦乡Zōngmài Xiāngགཙང་སྨད་ཤང་།gtsang smad shang513327212
Likogma Maima Township (Limai, Xialuokema)下罗柯马乡Xiàluókēmǎ Xiāngལི་ཁོག་མ་སྨད་མ་ཤང་།li khog ma smad ma shang513327214

Climate

Climate data for Luhuo, elevation 3,250 m (10,660 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–present)
MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecYear
Record high °C (°F)22.1 (71.8)21.9 (71.4)27.3 (81.1)28.9 (84.0)30.3 (86.5)31.0 (87.8)31.2 (88.2)30.1 (86.2)27.9 (82.2)26.3 (79.3)23.2 (73.8)20.0 (68.0)31.2 (88.2)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)8.6 (47.5)11.0 (51.8)13.7 (56.7)17.0 (62.6)20.1 (68.2)21.5 (70.7)22.6 (72.7)22.7 (72.9)20.4 (68.7)16.3 (61.3)12.5 (54.5)9.2 (48.6)16.3 (61.4)
Daily mean °C (°F)−2.7 (27.1)0.6 (33.1)4.2 (39.6)7.8 (46.0)11.5 (52.7)13.9 (57.0)15.0 (59.0)14.6 (58.3)12.2 (54.0)7.4 (45.3)1.6 (34.9)−2.6 (27.3)7.0 (44.5)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)−10.8 (12.6)−7.3 (18.9)−3.1 (26.4)0.8 (33.4)4.9 (40.8)8.5 (47.3)9.8 (49.6)9.3 (48.7)7.1 (44.8)1.7 (35.1)−5.4 (22.3)−10.2 (13.6)0.4 (32.8)
Record low °C (°F)−24.0 (−11.2)−19.3 (−2.7)−14.3 (6.3)−7.2 (19.0)−4.5 (23.9)0.0 (32.0)1.6 (34.9)0.5 (32.9)−1.9 (28.6)−9.3 (15.3)−16.9 (1.6)−21.7 (−7.1)−24.0 (−11.2)
Average precipitation mm (inches)4.0 (0.16)7.1 (0.28)19.8 (0.78)38.3 (1.51)78.0 (3.07)153.8 (6.06)140.2 (5.52)102.0 (4.02)108.6 (4.28)52.5 (2.07)7.2 (0.28)2.8 (0.11)714.3 (28.14)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm)3.15.59.213.419.323.821.218.519.313.44.32.5153.5
Average snowy days4.97.710.75.80.70000.12.55.23.941.5
Average relative humidity (%)42434853586971717267544758
Mean monthly sunshine hours208.0185.3214.1214.9216.7185.9188.0188.9177.9183.9203.9218.22,385.7
Percentage possible sunshine65595755514444464953657055
Source: China Meteorological Administration All-time Nov Record low