Gyaca County

Gyaca County, (Tibetan: རྒྱ་ཚ་རྫོང་།, Wylie: rgya tsha rdzong, ZYPY: Gyaca Zong ; Chinese: 加查县; pinyin: Jiāchá Xiàn) is a county of Shannan located in the south-east of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

Gyaca County

加查县 • རྒྱ་ཚ་རྫོང་།
County
Location of Gyaca County (red) within Shannan City (yellow) and the Tibet A.R.
Gyaca
Location of the seat in the Tibet A.R.
Coordinates: 29°8′35″N 92°35′31″E
CountryPeople's Republic of China
Autonomous regionTibet
Prefecture-level cityShannan
SeatGyaca
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)

Gyatsa County is in the south of Tibet, stretching from the Podrang La pass along the southern side of the Brahmaputra River downstream to Pamda which is just to the southwest of Daklha Gampo, across the Brahmaputra. The county capital is in the town of Gyaca or Drumpa (46 km or 29 mi west of Pamda) which is alongside the Drakpo Dratsang Monastery. It is renowned for its walnuts and apricots.[1]

Lhamo La-tso, the small oval 'Oracle Lake', where senior Tibetan monks go for visions to assist in the discovery of reincarnations of the Dalai Lamas is located in Gyaca County,

Settlements

Footnotes
  1. Gyurme Dorje (1999). Tibet Handbook with Bhutan (2nd ed.). Bath, UK: Footprint Handbooks. p. 230. ISBN 978-1-900949-33-0.


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