Phari

History

Thomas Manning, the first Englishman to reach Lhasa, visited Pagri from 21September until 5November 1811 and had this to say about his room in the town: "Dirt, dirt, grease, smoke. Misery, but good mutton." The Pagri Fortress (Dzong) was located here and was important for the government as it stood between Tibet and Bhutan. Pagri was a staging area en route to Gyantse and ultimately Lhasa.

Thubten Ngodup, the current Nechung Oracle, was born in Phari in 1957.

Gallery

File:Bundesarchiv Bild 135-S-06-06-22, Tibetexpedition, Blick auf Phari Dzong.jpg File:Phari Dzong in 1903.jpg|Phari Dzong in 1903 during British Younghusband invasion of Tibet File:Bundesarchiv Bild 135-BB-044-01, Tibetexpedition, Haus und Tibeter in Phari Dzong.jpg|Phari Dzong, 1938 File:Map India and Pakistan 1-250,000 Tile NG 45-4 Phari Dzong.jpg|"Phari Dzong" sheet- topographic map printed by the US Army Map Service, Corps of Engineers, February, 1963

Climate

Owing to its extreme altitude, Pagri has an alpine climate (Köppen ETH) that is too cold to permit the growth of trees, even though the altitude is still marginally too low for the formation of permafrost. Example Mount Fuji in Japan, Uelen in Russia and Longyearbyen in Svalbard Norway. The winter is severe in spite of the fact that no month has daytime maxima below 0 C, and also very dry and long, extending as late as May. Snowfall, however, is rare because of the dryness. Summers, during which the great majority of precipitation occurs, are cool even at their warmest and consistently damp, even though the Himalayas prevent falls from ever being heavy.

|Jan record high C = 15.8 |Feb record high C = 15.0 |Mar record high C = 16.4 |Apr record high C = 16.6 |May record high C = 17.7 |Jun record high C = 18.7 |Jul record high C = 18.6 |Aug record high C = 19.4 |Sep record high C = 16.8 |Oct record high C = 16.8 |Nov record high C = 16.4 |Dec record high C = 15.5 |year record high C= 19.4 |Jan record low C = -28.7 |Feb record low C = -28.4 |Mar record low C = -29.8 |Apr record low C = -20.2 |May record low C = -12.5 |Jun record low C = -5.7 |Jul record low C = -1.4 |Aug record low C = -2.1 |Sep record low C = -6.5 |Oct record low C = -21.5 |Nov record low C = -26.2 |Dec record low C = -27.4 |year record low C= -29.8 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230420110329/http://www.weather.com.cn/cityintro/101140207.shtml |archive-date=2023-04-20}}

References

References

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2. Das, Sarat Chandra. (1904). "Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet". John Murray.
3. link. [[National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China]]. zh-hans. 统计用区划代码 名称 540233100000 下司马镇 540233101000 帕里镇 540233200000 下亚东乡 540233201000 堆纳乡 540233202000 上亚东乡 540233203000 吉汝乡 540233204000 康布乡. (2017)
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6. (2023-04-20). "Climate averages from 1991 to 2020".