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Ali (town)

Shiquanhe
狮泉河镇 · ནག་ཆུ་གྲོང་རྡལ།
Town
Sênggêzangbo
Shiquanhe is located in Tibet
Shiquanhe
Shiquanhe
Coordinates: 32°31′N 80°04′E / 32.517°N 80.067°E / 32.517; 80.067
Country People's Republic of China
Region Tibet
Prefecture Ngari
County Gar
Elevation 4,255 m (13,960 ft)
Time zone CST (UTC+8)
Postal code 859000
Website http://www.dangxiong.gov.cn/
Shiquanhe
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese 狮泉河
Traditional Chinese 獅泉河
Tibetan name
Tibetan སེང་གེ་ཁ་འབབ།

Sênggêzangbo (Tibetan: སེང་གེ་ཁ་འབབ་, named after Sênggê Zangbo, a river in Ngari), or Shiquanhe (Chinese: 狮泉河镇, i.e. "Lion Spring River Town"), is the main town of Ngari Prefecture,Tibet. Shiquanhe is located on the confluence of Sênggê Zangbo (Indus River) and Gar River.

Historically the town was also known as Ger. This name, in the form "Gar" (simplified Chinese: 噶尔; traditional Chinese: 噶爾; pinyin: Ga'er), is now used to refer to the entire county; however, as the custom with Chinese county seats is, Gar is often used to refer to the county seat as well, and it may be labeled that way on maps.

Being the main town 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.

The name Shiquanhe is originally the name of the river; in Tibetan, it is Sengge Zangbo (in SASM/GNC/SRC transcriptions, sometimes simply Senge Zangbo),Senge Zangbu (森格藏布) or Sengghe Tsangpo (in a transcription used in Western books). The source of that river, a hot spring, supposedly, looks like the lion's mouth; thus the name, interpreted as "river flowing from the lion's mouth".


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