Luquan Yi and Miao Autonomous County (;

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province to the north. As of the 2020 census the population was 378,881. The county seat has two bus stations. The first is the long-distance

-Luquan bus station, near the access to the G108 highway. The second is the local public bus station behind the Wuxinglu street market, with buses north to Maoshan, Tuanjie, Zhongping and Sayingpan, south to Songde, east to Cuihua and west to

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Economy

Luquan's agriculture is specialized in

sericulture Sericulture, or silk farming, is the cultivation of silkworms to produce silk. Although there are several commercial species of silkworms, ''Bombyx mori'' (the caterpillar of the domestic silkmoth) is the most widely used and intensively studie ...

, chestnuts, white kidney beans, coffee, and tobacco.

Administrative divisions

Ethnic groups

29.95% of the population in 2020 belonged to

ethnic minorities The term 'minority group' has different usages depending on the context. According to its common usage, a minority group can simply be understood in terms of demographic sizes within a population: i.e. a group in society with the least number o ...

, mainly Yi and

Miao Miao may refer to: * Miao people, linguistically and culturally related group of people, recognized as such by the government of the People's Republic of China * Miao script or Pollard script, writing system used for Miao languages * Miao (Unicode ...

. There are 1,026 ethnic Hani as of 1990, who live in Xiaojing 硝井 and Liuhe 六合 of Chongde Township 崇德乡, and Xinglong 兴龙 and Chutu 初途 of Cuihua Township 翠华乡 (''Luquan County Gazetteer'' 1995:150). The only Hani-speaking village is Liuhe 六合 of Chongde Township 崇德乡. Their autonym is Luomian 罗缅. Sayingpan-''zhen'' (), north of the county seat of Luquan, was the original site of Salaowu (), the headquarters of the Yi. The ''Luquan County Gazetteer'' (1995:132) lists the following Yi subgroups. * Nasu 纳苏 (Black Yi 黑彝) *Aluo 阿罗 (Dry Yi 干彝 or White Yi 白彝) *Gaopo 稿颇 (Dry Yi 干彝 or White Yi 白彝) *Miqipo 密期颇 (Micha 密岔) *Sanipo 撒尼颇 (Milang 密朗) * Nuosu 诺苏 (Liangshan Yi 凉山彝) *Lipo 里颇

Climate

References

Area Code and Postal Code in Yunnan Province

External links

Luquan County Official Website
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