Heishui County

Heishui County
黑水县ཁྲོ་ཆུ་རྫོང་། • Vvlukvua
Choqu
Location of Heishui County (light red)
in Aba (yellow) and Sichuan (light gray)
Heishui
Location of the seat in Sichuan
Heishui
Heishui (China)
Coordinates: 32°14′07″N 103°03′20″E / 32.23528°N 103.05556°E / 32.23528; 103.05556
CountryChina
ProvinceSichuan
Autonomous prefectureNgawa
County seatDoka (Luhua)
Area
  Total
4,356 km2 (1,682 sq mi)
Elevation
3,544 m (11,627 ft)
Population
 (2020)
  Total
44,564
  Density10/km2 (26/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.heishui.gov.cn
Heishui County
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese黑水县
Traditional Chinese黑水縣
Literal meaningblack water
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinHēishuǐ Xiàn
Tibetan name
Tibetanཁྲོ་ཆུ་རྫོང་།
Transcriptions
Wyliekhro chu rdzong
Tibetan PinyinChoqu Zong
Qiang name
QiangVvlukvua

Heishui County (Chinese: 黑水县; Tibetan: ཁྲོ་ཆུ་རྫོང་།; Qiang: Vvlukvua) is a county in the north of Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of the Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. The county has an area of 1,682 square miles (4,356 km2) and its average elevation is 11,627 feet (3,544 m). As of 2016, the county has a population of 61,744.