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18-618: The town of Shiquanhe , the administrative headquarters of the Ngari Prefecture , is located in the lower valley of Sengge Zangbo, and is named after the river. The Sengge Zangbo drains an area of 27,450 square kilometres (10,600 sq mi), and covers a length of 430 kilometres (270 mi). Main tributaries include Gar Tsangpo . Other tributaries include the Langqu River, the Chizuo Tsangpo River, and

36-473: A Kharmar (reddish fort) in the region, also called Ralajong . Later he expanded into the Sutlej Valley and Burang by marrying a princess of Burang. This kingdom came to be known as Guge-Purang . By the 17th century, Ladakh annexed the entire kingdom of Guge and invited retaliation from Central Tibet under the 5th Dalai Lama . The large of army of Galdan Chhewang , Tibet's general, encamped in

54-549: A 3 m telescope in the indefinite future: but the ambitions for the site include the possibilities of megaprojects like a 30 m-class competitor to E-ELT and a 10–20 m class spectrometer as a sequel to LAMOST . Also planned for the site is the Ali CMB Polarization Telescope (AliCPT) for studying the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). This location is, during winter, as high and dry (and thus good for observations as)

72-601: Is also referred to as Gar ( simplified Chinese : 噶尔 ; traditional Chinese : 噶爾 ; pinyin : Ga'er ). it may be labeled that way on maps. When the Ngari Prefecture was established by the People's Republic of China in 1959, its capital was at Günsa (or Gar Gunsa), at the settlement called Gar Chongsar (སྒར་གྲོང་གསར), which is now the location of the Ngari Gunsa Airport . In 1965,

90-780: Is the main town and administrative seat of Ngari Prefecture , Tibet Autonomous Region , China. Shiquanhe is located on the bank of Sênggê Zangbo , the source stream of the Indus River , close to its confluence with the Gartang River . This modern Chinese-built town is named after the Sengge Zangbo river, the main headwater of the Indus River , on whose banks it is located. It is called "Sengge Zangbo" or "Sengge Khabab" in Tibetan and "Shiquanhe" in Chinese. Being

108-478: Is the main power source on site; solar panels, a diesel power generator, and a UPS power backup system are also in place. The site is also equipped with high-speed wired data service, full environmental heater/air conditioner units, and all the facilities needed to assemble and operate the receiver, including a crane and a workshop in a high-bay room. For human safety, an on-site oxygen system is present. Gar Gunsa Too Many Requests If you report this error to

126-640: The B1 site provides excellent conditions for carrying out CMB experiments. Infrastructure construction is complete, such as road construction, and has been connected to the city electricity power supply. AliCPT-1 will be operated from a new observatory building built by the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP), 850 m including the operation hall and additional rooms. The site is equipped with three weather stations monitoring pressure, wind speed and direction, and temperature. Grid power, already ready for operation,

144-582: The Charinongqu River. This Tibet location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a river in China is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Shiquanhe Shiquanhe ( Chinese : 狮泉河镇 ; lit. 'Lion Spring River Town'), known in Tibetan as Sênggêkanbab ( Tibetan : སེང་གེ་ཁ་འབབ་ , Wylie : seng ge kha 'bab , THL : seng gé kha bap ) or Sênggêzangbo ,

162-713: The Gar Valley. The first clash with the Ladakhi forces took place near the confluence of the Gartang and Sengge Zangbo, with the locations Langmar and Rala mentioned in the sources. The Ladakhis were defeated and Galdan Chhewang pursued them to Ladakh, leading to the Tibet–Ladakh–Mughal War and the Treaty of Tingmosgang . Ngari Gunsa Airport , near the town of Shiquanhe, started operations on 1 July 2010, becoming

180-543: The South Pole location of the similar BICEP and Keck Array telescopes, with the tremendous logistical advantage of being 30 minutes' drive from the airport and city. Construction has begun on the telescope, codenamed Ngari No.1, and it is expected to enter operations in 2023. It is subsequently officially named AliCPT-1. AliCPT-1 will be deployed in the middle latitude of the Northern Hemisphere, on

198-410: The army post west of the roundabout, has foreign exchange facilities. There is also a post and telecom office. Even though Shiquanhe is a modern town, its location has been of significant importance in history. Not only is it situated in a wide valley of Sengge Zangbo with an abundance of cultivable land, it also lies along a trade route between Gar Gunsa and Rudok , which continues on to Ladakh in

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216-627: The capital was moved from Günsa to the newly built Shiquanhe town in 1965, due to the extremely difficult living conditions at the former. At that time, Shiquanhe had a population of 400 people. Shiquanhe is a modern Chinese-style town, situated at the confluence of the Sengge River and the Longchu River. According to a government-affiliated source, the population of Shiquanhe had grown from just over 1,500 to over 20,000 in 30 years (1978–2008), and people there now "enjoy their life because

234-492: The city has been equipped with culture and commerce facilities". Western guidebook writers have referred to the place as a "concrete monstrosity of a town". Shiquanhe has a lion statue in the middle of the town. It has high-rise buildings, restaurants, general stores and nightclubs. There are several primary schools and a secondary school. It also has two banks, one of which, the Agricultural Bank of China , near

252-503: The fourth civil airport in Tibet. Air China operates two flights a week from Chengdu to Ngari Gunsa via Lhasa , on Tuesdays and Fridays. Shiquanhe has a cold desert climate ( Köppen climate classification : BWk ) with short, very mild summers and very cold, dry winters. China, Japan, and South Korea are currently in talks to construct a large high-altitude observatory on a ridge 25 km (16 mi) south of Shiquanhe, which

270-589: The headquarters of Ngari Prefecture (which is known in Chinese under the Sinicized form of its name, Ali Prefecture), the town is also commonly known in English as Ngari or Ali (Chinese: 阿里 ; pinyin: Ālǐ ) Town; this is what many guidebooks use as the primary name for the town. In Tibetan, Ngari is only the name for the prefecture, and not the town. Being the county seat of the Gar County , it

288-499: The site of Ngari(Ali) Prefecture of Tibet, on a high peak of the Gangdise mountain, 32°18'38"N, 80°01'50"E at 5,250 m (17,220 ft) above sea level (B1 site), Fig. 7. The B1 site is located 20 km away from the Ngari Gunsa Airport , with convenient transportation. The closest city, Shiquanhe located at 4,255 m (13,960 ft) above sea level, is only 30 km away from the B1 site. After several years of construction,

306-722: The west via the Pangong Lake , and, in the other direction, to Lhasa via the Mayum La pass. The region was historically known as Rala ( Chinese : 热拉 ). (See Strachey's map.) During the Tibetan Era of Fragmentation in the 10th century, Kyide Nyimagon , a descendant of emperor Langdarma , came to Ngari in the midst of chaos in Central Tibet and started a new kingdom in Rala. He is said to have started by building

324-423: Was selected after a series of site surveys through Tibet and western China for candidate sites. Atmospheric conditions from the site's elevation 5,050 m (16,570 ft) above sea level have been roughly characterized, initial facilities (including two small domes) have been built, and a 25 cm pathfinder telescope project is in place as of 2012, with 50 and 60 cm telescopes planned for 2013 and 2014 and

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