Dujiangyan City

Dujiangyan (Chinese都江堰市, pinyin Dujiangyan Shì ) is a county-level city, which belongs to the administrative area of the prefecture-level city of Chengdu in southwest China's Sichuan Province. It is located at the point where the Min River (Min Jiang) after he was dammed in the new Zipingpu Dam pours out of the hills in the Chengdu Plain.

Dujiangyan has an area of 1207 km ² and around 590,000 inhabitants ( 2001). Administratively, the city itself is composed of 17 large municipalities.

Weir system

The Dujiangyan Irrigation System is on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China and on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites since 1982.

2008 Sichuan earthquake

On 12 May 2008 the city was hit by a severe earthquake and thereby largely destroyed.

Administrative Divisions

Dujiangyan is composed of seventeen large municipalities, two municipalities and other smaller administrative units:

Greater community Guankou灌口镇
Greater community Xingfu幸福镇
Greater community Puyang蒲阳镇
Greater community Zhongxing中兴镇
Greater community Juyuan聚源镇
Greater community Tianma天马镇
Greater community Chongyi崇义镇
Greater community Longchi龙池镇
Greater community Liujie柳街镇
Greater community Xujia胥家镇
Greater community Anling安龙镇
Greater community Daguan大观镇
Greater community Zipingpu紫坪铺镇
Greater community Cuiyuehu翠月湖镇
Greater community Shiyang石羊镇
Greater community Yutang玉堂镇
Greater community Qingchengshan青城山镇
Community Xiang'e向峨乡
Community Hongkou虹口乡

Footnotes

31103.62Koordinaten: 31 ° 0 ' N, 103 ° 37 ' E

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