What is the altitude of Mangya City?

The average elevation of Mangya is 3000 meters.

Mangya belongs to Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Qinghai Province, located in the northwest border of Qinghai Province and the west edge of Qaidam Basin, with a total area of 49,900 square kilometers. The average elevation of Mangya City is 3000 meters, which belongs to a typical plateau continental climate, with less precipitation, large evaporation, dry, cold, lack of oxygen and dusty weather.

Mangya City is high in the northwest and low in the southeast. The Altun Mountain, with its mountainous mountains, stands in the north, and the snow-capped Akaqimantage Mountain stands high in the southwest, forming a topographic pattern of alternating mountains and basins. Except Aheti Mountain in the north and Akaqimantage Mountain in the southwest, the basin area, which accounts for about 80% of the total area, is between 2689 and 3800 meters above sea level.

Historical development:

Mangya area in Han Dynasty belonged to Ruoqiang country, and Qiang people lived in Huatugou and Mangya town. In the Western Jin Dynasty, Xianbei people moved westward to the Qaidam Basin. In the fourth year of the Western Jin Dynasty (320), Xianbei people unified the Qiang people on the west coast and established the Tuguhun country, and the territory around Gasi belonged to Tuguhun.

In the first year of Xianheng in Tang Dynasty (670), Tubo occupied Tuguhun and stationed troops in Gasi Basin for more than 200 years. In the sixth year of Tiansheng in the Northern Song Dynasty (1028), the Tangut broke through Ganzhou Uighur, and tens of thousands of Huangtou Uighur crossed the Qilian Mountains in the south, and the Gasi grassland became its main pasture. In the first year of Yuan Dynasty (1333), Quxian first arrived in Linfu, sealed Buyan Timur, and guarded the Gasi area.