Guchin-Us, Övörkhangai

Guchin-Us District
Гучин-Ус сум
ᠭᠤᠴᠢᠨᠤᠰᠤᠰᠤᠮᠤ
District

General view of Arguut
Country Mongolia
Province Övörkhangai Province
Time zone UTC + 8 (UTC+8)
Center of Arguut
Rock paintings

Guchin-Us (Mongolian: Гучин-Ус, Thirty water) is a sum (district) of Övörkhangai Province in southern Mongolia. It had an estimated 2,260 inhabitants in 2008.[1]

The town of Arguut, 104 km from the Province capital Arvaikheer, is the administrative center of the sum, but mostly it is called "Guchin Us" as well.[2]

There are several prehistoric rock paintings and buddhist inscriptions in the north-east of the town, close to the unpaved road to Arvaikheer.

References

  1. Övörkhangai Aimag Sums Statistics, 2009
  2. Werner Elstner: Mongolei, p.162. Berlin 1993

Coordinates: 45°27′42″N 102°25′27″E / 45.46167°N 102.42417°E / 45.46167; 102.42417


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