Gucheng County, which belongs to Xiangyang City, Hubei Province, is located in the northwest of Hubei Province, at the southeast foot of Wudang Mountain Range and the southwest bank of the middle reaches of Hanshui River, with a total area of 2,553 square kilometers. As of June, 2020, Gucheng County has 9 towns and/kloc-0 townships. According to the data of the seventh census, as of 0: 00 1 1 in June 2020, the permanent population of Gucheng County was 483,293.
20 10, 1 1 turn to Xiangyang city, which belongs to the junction of Bashan Mountain in Qinling Mountains and Jianghan Plain, and the overall terrain decreases from southwest to northeast. It belongs to the north subtropical monsoon climate zone and is a natural zone of evergreen broad-leaved forest. Gucheng county is a national double-support model city, a national health county and a food safety demonstration county in Hubei province.
Hydrological characteristics
There are 107 rivers over 5km in Gucheng County, which belong to three major river systems: Hanjiang River, Nanhe River and Beihe River, among which 12 rivers have a drainage area of more than 100 km2. Hanjiang River is a boundary river, which flows eastward in the north of the county, enters the territory of Gucheng from Wangjiakan, Shenwan, Gucheng County, and enters Xiangyang at Gaojiayazi, Cihe River. The domestic flow is 85 kilometers, the basin area is 606.56 square kilometers, the maximum flood flow is 6 1 000 seconds, the minimum flow is 572 seconds cubic meters, and the annual runoff is 56.3 billion cubic meters.
Nanhe River originates from the southeast foot of Shennongjia and is the main tributary of the southwest bank of the middle reaches of the Han River. The total length of the main stream is 303 kilometers and the basin area is 6490 square kilometers. The average annual rainfall in the basin is 1 0,036,5438+0.7mm, and the total annual runoff is 2.47 billion cubic meters. The North River originates from Nanjingou, Fangxian County, at the southern foot of Wudang Mountain, with a total length of 103km and a drainage area of 12 12km2. The average annual precipitation in the basin is 997.5mm and the annual runoff is 460 million cubic meters.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Gucheng County