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
Country	People's Republic of China
Autonomous region	Tibet
Prefecture-level city	Shannan
Seat	Gyaca
Population  (2020)[1]
• Total	23,534
Time zone	UTC+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.[2]

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

• Gangga
• Zhaxigang
• Gyaca

Footnotes

External links

• Gyaca County Annals

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