How many counties are there in Liangshan prefecture

Liangshan Prefecture has 1 county-level cities, 15 counties and 1 autonomous counties.

They are Xichang, meigu county, ningnan county, Leibo, Mianning, Dechang, Jinyang, Yuexi, Yanyuan, Ganluo, Huidong, Butuo, Zhaojue, Xide, Huili, Puge and Muli Tibetan Autonomous Counties.

Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture under the jurisdiction of Sichuan Province. Located in the southwest of Sichuan Province, Dadu River borders Ya 'an City and Ganzi Prefecture in the north, Jinsha River faces Yunnan Province in the south, Zhaotong City in Yunnan Province and Yibin City and Leshan City in Sichuan Province in the east, and Ganzi Prefecture in the west. It is the largest Yi inhabited area in China, with the largest number of ethnic groups and the largest population of ethnic minorities in Sichuan. With a total area of 60,400 square kilometers, it governs 17 counties and cities.

The climate of Liangshan Prefecture

The climate of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture belongs to the subtropical monsoon climate zone, with distinct wet and dry conditions, abundant sunshine in winter, little rain, dryness and warmth; It is cloudy and rainy in summer, and the climate is cool. Except the Niger River has four distinct seasons, other places divide the seasons by the average temperature, and the four seasons are not obvious. There is no summer in high altitude areas in the south and no winter in low altitude areas. Although the four seasons are not obvious, the dry and wet seasons are significant. Roughly11~ April is the dry season and May ~ 10 is the rainy season.

The characteristics of dry season and rainy season are obviously different. The climate in dry season is characterized by scarce precipitation, small temperature difference, abundant sunshine and warm climate. The rainy season is characterized by warm, cool, humid and rainy weather. The obvious feature of rainy season is rainy, so it is customary to call rainy season rainy season. Liangshan Prefecture takes Anning Valley as the central axis, and gradually rises from the south to the northwest and northeast. Many tall mountains have created a complete vertical climate zone spectrum in the region and as a whole, with distinct levels, which regularly reproduces the replacement forms of various climate zones in the horizontal direction.