The geographical environment of Quzhou

Quzhou is located in the west of Zhejiang Province, in the upper reaches of Qiantang River, at the western end of Jinhua Qu (Zhou) Basin. Its geographical coordinates are11801'-1920' and 281north latitude. The total area is 8844.6 square kilometers. Quzhou is connected to Nanping in Fujian in the south, Shangrao and Jingdezhen in Jiangxi in the west, Huangshan in Anhui in the north and Jinhua, Lishui and Hangzhou in the province in the east. "Living in the upper right of Zhejiang, controlling the elbow and armpit of Poyang, controlling the throat of Fujian and Vietnam, and promoting the momentum". Historically, it is the trade center and transportation hub at the junction of Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi and Anhui provinces, and it is the marginal central city of the four provinces. Known as "the thoroughfare of four provinces, the first of five roads."

The width from east to west is 127.5km, and the length from north to south is 140.25mm, with a total area of 884 1. 12k m2. At the end of 2005, the total population was 2.456 million. It is a central city on the edge of Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Anhui provinces, an ecological city in western Zhejiang, a national historical and cultural city and a national chemical base. temperature

Quzhou City belongs to the subtropical monsoon climate zone. Annual average temperature 16.3℃ (civilized) ~ 17.4℃ (urban). The frost-free period is 25 1~26 1 day. The extreme maximum temperature in China is 465,438+0.8℃ (Tianma Town, Changshan), and the extreme minimum temperature is-65,438+065,438+0.4℃ (Longyou Town, Longyou County). Wu Cun, 440 meters above sea level, once recorded-65,438+03.9℃. Four distinct seasons, long winter and summer, short spring and autumn, abundant light and heat, abundant precipitation, moderate temperature and long frost-free period, with the characteristics of "short early spring and autumn, long summer and winter, moderate temperature and light, obvious drought and flood". The winter wind is stronger than the summer monsoon, the wind direction in urban areas and Changshan is east-northeast, the wind direction in Longyou and Jiangshan is northeast, and the wind direction in Hua Kai is north. There are various landforms in this area. At the turn of spring and summer, the complex terrain conditions help to stop the stagnation of the front and increase the chance of precipitation. In midsummer, it is difficult for typhoons to penetrate deep into the territory, with less impact and more static and hot weather.

rain

There are obvious regional differences in precipitation. The average annual precipitation is between 65,438+0,500 ~ 2,300 mm, and below 65,438+0,700 mm in the valley and plain along the Yangtze River, increasing to the hilly areas on both sides of the river, with an increasing rate of 40 ~ 80 mm/65,438+000 m, with the largest increasing rate from March to June. There is more precipitation in the northern and southern mountainous areas than in the central plain, and more in the west than in the east. The population of Quzhou is mainly Han nationality. Quzhou is inhabited by ethnic minorities, with 4 1 ethnic minorities and a population of 20,800. Quzhou lives in mountainous areas and 120 rural fringe areas. Among the ethnic minorities, she nationality is 6.5438+0.58 million, followed by Buyi nationality, Miao nationality and Hui nationality.

The ethnic minorities living in Quzhou are mainly She and Hui, and other ethnic minorities come to Quzhou for reasons such as marriage, job assignment and transfer. Longyou County, where ethnic minorities are relatively concentrated, has a population of more than 10,000, and has a She nationality township in Mu Chen, which is one of the nine key ethnic minority counties in Zhejiang Province.