Tonghai County () is located in
Yuxi
Yuxi () is a prefecture-level city in the central part of Yunnan province of the People's Republic of China. The administrative center of Yuxi is Hongta District. Yuxi is approximately south of Kunming.
Geography
Yuxi is located in the center ...
Prefecture-level City,
Yunnan Province
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, China.
Geography
Tonghai County occupies the fertile valley of
Qilu Lake
Qilu Lake () is a plateau lake in Yunnan Province, in southwestern China. The lake has a total area of about 36.86 square kilometers. The average depth is 4.03 m, with an elevation of 1796.75 m. the water storage capacity is about 1.486×108m3.
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, surrounded on all sides by mountains. The county seat is located on the south side of the lake, separated from the lake by a mile-wide strip of farmland.
The county's southernmost part, including the
Dagao Dai and Yi Ethnic Township and
Lishan Yi Ethnic Township, is separated from the rest of the county by mountains; it is outside of the Qilu Lake basin, and is drained into the
Qu River instead.
In 1970, a
powerful earthquake struck the area.
History
The area around
Qilu Lake
Qilu Lake () is a plateau lake in Yunnan Province, in southwestern China. The lake has a total area of about 36.86 square kilometers. The average depth is 4.03 m, with an elevation of 1796.75 m. the water storage capacity is about 1.486×108m3.
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has been inhabited since at least the
Neolithic
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period. In the
Tang dynasty
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it was the base of a general. For many centuries it was the political, economic and military center of southern Yunnan.
Soon after the formation of PRC, the area of today's Tonghai County was organized as two counties: Tonghai and Hexi (in the western part of today's Tonghai County). The two counties were merged into Qilu County () on November 22, 1956. On October 22, 1959, Qilu County was renamed Tonghai County.
The county includes a large Muslim (
Hui
The Hui people ( zh, c=, p=Huízú, w=Hui2-tsu2, Xiao'erjing: , dng, Хуэйзў, ) are an East Asian ethnoreligious group predominantly composed of Chinese-speaking adherents of Islam. They are distributed throughout China, mainly in the n ...
) population. Centers of Hui culture include Dahui and Xiaohui villages in Hexi Township, as well as Nagu Town, with its
Najiaying Mosque
The Najiaying Mosque () is a mosque in Tonghai County, Yuxi City, Yunnan Province, China.
History
The mosque was originally built in 1370. Over the past 600 years, the mosque had been expanded several times. In 2001, a new mosque building was ...
.
Xingmeng Mongol Ethnic Township, home to the Yunnan Mongols (
Khatso
The Khatso people (), commonly known as the "Mongols in Yunnan", is a Mongolic ethnic group, mainly distributed in Tonghai County in the Yunnan Province of southwestern China. The Khatso people are descendants of the army personnel of the Yuan dy ...
), is the only Mongol
ethnic township
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in Yunnan.
Administrative divisions
Tonghai County has 2 subdistricts, 4 towns and 3 ethnic townships.
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Xiushan
Xiushan Tujia and Miao Autonomous County (), or Xiushan County for short, is located in the southeast of Chongqing Municipality, China. It is the municipality's southernmost county-level division.
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Jiulong ()
;4 towns
;3 ethnic townships
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Lishan Yi ()
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Gaoda Dai and Yi ()
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Xingmeng Mongol ()
Transportation
Bus routes:
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Jianshui County
Jianshui County (; Hani: ''Jeifsyu'') is a city in Honghe prefecture, Yunnan province, China. and remains an important transportation crossroad. Previously, it has been known as Lin'an () or Huili (); today, the name Lin'an Town is retained by ...
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Gejiu
(, ; Hani: ''Goqjef''; formerly known as Kochiu) is a county-level city and the former capital of Honghe prefecture, Yunnan Province, China, and has 202,000 urban inhabitants (ranked 14th largest city in Yunnan). It is the site of the country's ...
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Hekou (13hr)
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Kaiyuan (4hr)
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Kunming
Kunming (; ), also known as Yunnan-Fu, is the capital and largest city of Yunnan province, China. It is the political, economic, communications and cultural centre of the province as well as the seat of the provincial government. The headquar ...
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Railway:
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Yuxi–Mengzi Railway (a section of the standard gauge Kunming–Hekou Railway). The passenger station, Tonghai Station, is located near Hexi Town, a few kilometers west of the county seat.
Climate
References
External links
Tonghai County Official Website
County-level divisions of Yuxi
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