Wenchuan County
Wenchuan (Chinese汶川县, Pinyin Wenchuan Xiàn ) is a district in the southeast of the Autonomous Prefecture of Tibetan and Qiang Ngawa in the Chinese province of Sichuan. Its main town is the large village Weizhou (威 州镇). It lies on the northwestern edge of the Sichuan Basin in the upper reaches of the Min River (Min Jiang).
The county has an area of 4,084 square kilometers and is one of 106 119 inhabitants ( 2005).
2008 Sichuan earthquake
On 12 May 2008 the area was the epicenter of a major earthquake.
Administrative Divisions
The Wenchuan consists of six large municipalities and eight municipalities:
- Greater community Weizhou威 州镇29 237 inhabitants
- Greater community Xuankou漩 口镇13,091 inhabitants
- Greater community Shuimo水磨 镇10,467 inhabitants
- Greater community Yingxiu映秀 镇7,977 inhabitants
- Greater community Miansi绵 虒 镇9,373 inhabitants
- Greater community Wolong卧龙 镇2,552 inhabitants
- Community Keku克 枯 乡3,445 inhabitants
- Community Longxi龙 溪乡4,851 inhabitants
- Community Yanmen雁门 乡6,980 inhabitants
- Community Caopo草坡 乡4,906 inhabitants
- Community Yinxing银杏 乡2,672 inhabitants
- Community Sanjiang三江 乡4,157 inhabitants
- Community Gengda耿 达 乡2,583 inhabitants
- Community Baihua白花 乡9,644 inhabitants
Ethnic structure of the population ( 2000)
At the census in 2000 Wenchuan had 111 935 inhabitants.
Others
In the large village lies the Wolong Giant Panda Research Center (大熊猫 研究 中心, Daxiongmao yanjiu zhongxin ) and opened in 2002 China Wolong Giant Panda Museum (中国 卧龙 大熊猫 博物馆, Zhongguo Wolong Daxiongmao Bowuguan ).
The Neolithic sites of Yingpanshan ( circle Mao ( Ngawa ) ) and Jiangweicheng ( Wenchuan ) ( Yingpanshan he Jiangweicheng Yizhi (营盘 山 和 姜维 城 遗址)) of Yingpanshan culture (营盘 山 文化) are since 2006 on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China ( 6-177 ).