Changle City is located in the south bank of Minjiang Estuary, in the middle of the coastline between the Yangtze River Estuary and the Pearl River Estuary, and faces the island of Taiwan Province Province across the sea. The landform is hilly community, bordering Taiwan Province Strait in the east, Minhou County in the west, Fuqing City in the south and Mawei District across the river in the north. The east is the open coastal plain, and the west is the Yutian plain in front of the camp; The whole land area is 729 square kilometers and the sea area is 3248 square kilometers. It has jurisdiction over 5 streets, 1 1 town and 2 townships.
Changle District, which belongs to Changle County in Fuzhou in ancient times, was named after the meaning of Chang 'an Changle in The Book of Songs. There are only a handful of "two ports" urban areas with sea, air and land transportation, and it is one of the open counties (cities) promulgated by the state. Taiping Port in Changle is the place where Zheng He made seven voyages to the Western Ocean to open up the sun, from which the buds and tribute salt appeared in the tribute tea square mountain. It is also a famous hometown of overseas Chinese in China. Overseas Chinese are distributed all over the world and are also the ancestral home of Taiwan Province compatriots.
Climate and hydrology
Changle District belongs to the subtropical maritime monsoon climate zone, which is warm and humid, with long summer, less heat, short winter and less frost and snow. The annual average temperature is 65438 09.3℃. 65438+ 10 monthly average temperature 10.3℃, extreme low temperature-10.3℃; The average temperature in July is 28.3℃, and the extreme high temperature is 37.4℃. The frost-free period is 333 days. The precipitation is1382.3mm. The annual average wind speed is 4. 1 m/s, mostly northeast wind. Wind, flood and drought are the most serious natural disasters in Changle area.
The Minjiang River in Changle District crosses the northern border and is the main river in the territory, with a total length of about 35 kilometers from Huangshi to Meihua. The larger rivers in the west are Shangdong River and Xiadong River, and the other rivers are short, with the length of only 1 1 ~ 16 km, which mostly originate from the southern mountainous areas and flow into rivers and seas. The average density of river network is 0.5 ~ 1km/ km2, and that of plain area is 2km/ km2. There are other small lakes such as West Lake, East Lake, Khufu Lake and Tiantai Lake, with an area of only 1 ~ 2 square kilometers.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Changle District.