Tuotuohe railway station

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The Togtogquwo railway station (Tibetan: ཐོག་ཐོག་ཆུ་བོའི་འབབ་ཚུགས་, ZYPY: Togtogquwoi Babcug) or the Tuotuohe railway station (Chinese: 沱沱河站; pinyin: Tuótuóhé Zhàn) is a station on the Chinese Qinghai–Tibet Railway. It is located at

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34°13′59.26″N 92°26′44.80″E / 34.2331278°N 92.4457778°E / 34.2331278; 92.4457778 near the railway bridge over the Tuotuo River (沱沱河, Tuótuóhé), which is considered the headwaters of China's great Yangtze River.[1] (Further downstream, it is known in China as the Tongtian River, Jinsha River, and finally the Changjiang).

Although both the river (Tuotuohe) and the seat of Tanggulashan Town (Tuotuoheyan) are known in Tibetan as Mar Qu. the official Tibetan name of this railway station is Togtogquwo.

The station is located next to the main urban area, such as there is, of Tanggula Town.

Climate[]

Climate data for Tuotuohe, China
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 15.4
(59.7) 		14.6
(58.3) 		17.5
(63.5) 		23.6
(74.5) 		26.1
(79.0) 		28.0
(82.4) 		24.1
(75.4) 		25.0
(77.0) 		21.4
(70.5) 		17.3
(63.1) 		9.3
(48.7) 		7.1
(44.8) 		28.0
(82.4)
Average high °C (°F) −7.0
(19.4) 		−4.6
(23.7) 		0.3
(32.5) 		4.9
(40.8) 		9.4
(48.9) 		12.7
(54.9) 		14.5
(58.1) 		14.3
(57.7) 		10.8
(51.4) 		4.5
(40.1) 		−2.1
(28.2) 		−5.9
(21.4) 		4.3
(39.8)
Daily mean °C (°F) −15.7
(3.7) 		−13.2
(8.2) 		−8.5
(16.7) 		−3.5
(25.7) 		1.6
(34.9) 		5.8
(42.4) 		8.1
(46.6) 		7.8
(46.0) 		4.5
(40.1) 		−2.7
(27.1) 		−10.5
(13.1) 		−14.7
(5.5) 		−3.4
(25.8)
Average low °C (°F) −24.9
(−12.8) 		−22.0
(−7.6) 		−17.1
(1.2) 		−11.8
(10.8) 		−6.0
(21.2) 		−1.0
(30.2) 		1.7
(35.1) 		1.5
(34.7) 		−1.7
(28.9) 		−10.1
(13.8) 		−19.7
(−3.5) 		−24.0
(−11.2) 		−11.3
(11.7)
Record low °C (°F) −45.2
(−49.4) 		−41.8
(−43.2) 		−35.5
(−31.9) 		−24.3
(−11.7) 		−19.4
(−2.9) 		−11.9
(10.6) 		−8.2
(17.2) 		−8.5
(16.7) 		−13.2
(8.2) 		−38.9
(−38.0) 		−42.4
(−44.3) 		−44.2
(−47.6) 		−45.2
(−49.4)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 1.4
(0.06) 		1.7
(0.07) 		1.7
(0.07) 		5.5
(0.22) 		16.8
(0.66) 		51.4
(2.02) 		78.0
(3.07) 		62.1
(2.44) 		42.1
(1.66) 		10.4
(0.41) 		0.8
(0.03) 		1.2
(0.05) 		273.1
(10.76)
Average precipitation days 1 0 0 1 7 16 18 18 14 2 0 0 77
Average snowy days 5 7 6 9 13 8 2 1 7 8 4 4 74
Average relative humidity (%) 41 39 35 38 48 61 62 63 63 51 43 41 49
Source 1: "Meteo Climat". Retrieved 4 October 2020. (average temps, total precip), "Meteo Climat". Retrieved 4 October 2020. (extremes)
Source 2: "Myweather2.com". Retrieved 4 October 2020.


See also[]

Preceding station   China Railways.svg China Railway   Following station
towards Xining
Qinghai–Tibet Railway
towards Lhasa

References[]

  1. ^ Tuotuo River Town

Coordinates: 34°13′59.33″N 92°26′44.72″E / 34.2331472°N 92.4457556°E / 34.2331472; 92.4457556


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