Jiuzhaigou

alternative Chiu-chai-kou

1. A nature reserve and national park located in Ngawa prefecture in the north of Sichuan Province in southwestern China.

   Certainly Fargesia sp. is an adequate food source, pandas in the Jiuzhaigou reserve and some other areas subsisting entirely on it.

   1985, George B. Schaller, Hu Jinchu, Pan Wenshi, Zhu Jing, The Giant Pandas of Wolong, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 61

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   The Jiuzhaigou [Chiuchaikou] preserve will be in a region of dense forests, springs and lakes. Giant pandas, golden monkeys and takins are all to be found there.

   1979 January 31 [1979 January 16], “Sichuan Animal Preserves”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 487, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Beijing XINHUA [Peking NCNA], →OCLC, Science and Technology, page 94

2. A county of Ngawa prefecture, Sichuan, China.

   Taxi - Taking a taxi from Jiuzhaigou County to the scenic area is about RMB 10.

   2004, Intercontinental's Best of China, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 420

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   From January 2013 to October 2013, Songpan County, which includes the Huanglong preserve, had 3.22 million visitors,[…]Jiuzhaigou County had 4.76 million visitors last year.

   2014 June 13, Edward Wong, “In China, Negotiating Peaks and Police”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2014, Travel

   Fallen trees are seen blocking a road after an earthquake in Jiuzhaigou county, Ngawa prefecture, Sichuan province, China August 8, 2017.

   2017 August 8, Ben Blanchard, Nick Macfie, “Four dead as quake strikes in remote part of China's Sichuan province”, in Andrew Bolton, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2017, Environment