Babang | |
Official Name: | Palpung |
Native Name: | 八邦乡 |
Native Name Lang: | zh |
Settlement Type: | Township |
Pushpin Map: | Sichuan#China |
Coordinates: | 31.6433°N 98.7969°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | China |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Sichuan |
Subdivision Type2: | Prefecture |
Subdivision Name2: | Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture |
Subdivision Type3: | County |
Subdivision Name3: | Dêgê County |
Area Total Km2: | 555.2 |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Elevation M: | 3,720 |
Population As Of: | 2010 |
Population Total: | 2,638 |
Timezone: | CST |
Utc Offset: | +8 |
Babang (Tibetan: Palpung;) is a rural Tibetan township in Dêgê County, Garzê Prefecture, Sichuan, China. The township is primarily concentrated around the Pal Chu river in the western reaches of the Chola Mountains on the east side of the Jinsha River.[2] The township contains significant remaining tracts of the Hengduan conifer forests.Babang is known for the 18th-century Palpung Monastery located on a ridge approximately above the centre of the township.