SAPA GIRO DELLA CITTÀ
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- Distance
- 4.17 mi
- Elevation gain
- 495 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Easy
- Elevation loss
- 495 ft
- Max elevation
- 4,955 ft
- TrailRank
- 57
- Min elevation
- 4,750 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- 3 hours 54 minutes
- Coordinates
- 890
- Uploaded
- March 17, 2023
- Recorded
- February 2023
near Xóm Ba A, Lào Cai (Vietnam)
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Sa Pa (also spelled as Sapa) is a district-level city of Lào Cai Province in the Northwest Region of Vietnam. In 2018, the city had a population of 61,498.[1] The city covers an area of 677 km2. The capital is located in Sa Pa. [2] It is one of the main market towns in the area, home to different ethnic minority groups such as the Hmong, Dao (Yao), Giáy, Xa Pho and Tay.
administrative divisions
Sa Pa is divided into 16 municipality-level subdivisions, including the 6 wards of: Cầu Mây, Hàm Rồng, Ô Quý Hồ, Phan Si Păng, Sa Pa, Sa Pa and 10 rural municipalities of: Bản Hồ, Hoàng Liên, Liên Minh , Mường Bo, Mường Hoa, Ngũ Chỉ Sơn, Tả Phìn, Tả Van, Thanh Bình and Trung Chải.
History
Ancient petroglyphs. The ancient stone area of Sapa is listed as a tentative site for UNESCO World Heritage nomination.
Sa Pa was a frontier town and capital of the former Sa Pa District in Lào Cai Province in northwestern Vietnam. It was initially inhabited by people of whom nothing is known. Throughout the valley they left hundreds of petroglyphs, mostly composed of lines, which according to experts date back to the 15th century and represent local cadastres. Then came the highland minorities of the Hmong and Yao. The township is one of the main markets in the area, home to different ethnic minority groups such as the Hmong, Dao (Yao), Giáy, Pho Lu and Tày. These are the four main minority groups still present in the Sa Pa district today. The Kinh (lowland Vietnamese) did not originally colonize this highest of the valleys of Việt Nam, which lies in the shadow of Phan-Xi-Pǎng (Fansipan, 3143 m), the highest peak in the country.[3] Sa Pa is also home to more than 200 pieces of boulders with ancient engravings. The "Ancient Stone Carving Area in Sapa" has been on the UNESCO tentative list since 1997.[4]
The Catholic church of Sa Pa, built in stone in 1930
It wasn't until the French landed in the Tonkin Plateau in the late 1880s that Sa Pa, the Hmong village name, with the "S" is pronounced almost as harshly as "Ch" in French, "Sh" in English," S" in standard Vietnamese, so Chapa as the French called it, began to appear on the national map. Near present-day Sa Pa town is "Sa Pả commune", showing the Hmong-language origin of the place name.[a]
Over the next decade, the future Sa Pa municipality site began to welcome visiting military and missionary groups from the Société des Missions Etrangères de Paris (MEP).[6] The French army marched from the Red River delta into the northern mountain regions as part of the "pacification" of Tonkin. In 1894-96 the border between China and Tonkin was formally agreed upon and the area of Sa Pa, just south of this border, was placed under French authority. From 1891, the entire Lào Cai region, including Sa Pa, came under direct colonial military administration in order to limit banditry and political resistance on the sensitive northern frontier.[7]
The first permanent French civilian resident arrived in Sa Pa in 1909. With its attractive continental climate, health authorities believed the site had potential. By 1912, a military sanatorium for sick officers had been erected together with a full-fledged military garrison. Then, starting in the 1920s, some wealthy professionals with sufficient financial capital also had some private villas built nearby.
At the end of World War II, a long period of hostilities began in Tonkin that would last until 1954. In the process, nearly all of the approximately 200 colonial buildings in or around Sa Pa were destroyed, both by Việt Minh sympathizers and by the end of the 1940s or, in the early 1950s, by French air raids. The vast majority of the Viet population fled for their lives and the former township entered a prolonged sleep.
In the early 1960s, thanks to the New Economic Zones migration scheme set up by the new socialist regime, new lowlanders began to migrate to the region.
The brief 1979 occupation of the northern border region by Chinese troops had little impact on the city of Sa Pa, but displaced the Kinh people (lowland Vietnamese) for a month.
In 1993 the last obstacle to Sa Pa's full renaissance as a major tourist destination was removed when the decision was made to fully open the doors to international tourism. Sa Pa is back on the tourist trail again, this time for a new crowd of up-and-coming elite local tourists, as well as international tourists.[8]
Sa Pa is now booming economically, mainly from the thousands of tourists who come each year to trek the hundreds of kilometers of trekking trails between and around the Dao village villages of Ta Van and Ta Phin.
In 2006, the chairman of the Sapa Province People's Committee was elected to the Central Committee of the Communist Party as the youngest member ever (born in 1973).
Geography
Sa Pa District is located in Lào Cai Province in northwest Vietnam, 380 km northwest of Hanoi, near the border with China. The Hoàng Liên Son mountain range dominates the district, which is located east...
Sa Pa (also spelled as Sapa) is a district-level city of Lào Cai Province in the Northwest Region of Vietnam. In 2018, the city had a population of 61,498.[1] The city covers an area of 677 km2. The capital is located in Sa Pa. [2] It is one of the main market towns in the area, home to different ethnic minority groups such as the Hmong, Dao (Yao), Giáy, Xa Pho and Tay.
administrative divisions
Sa Pa is divided into 16 municipality-level subdivisions, including the 6 wards of: Cầu Mây, Hàm Rồng, Ô Quý Hồ, Phan Si Păng, Sa Pa, Sa Pa and 10 rural municipalities of: Bản Hồ, Hoàng Liên, Liên Minh , Mường Bo, Mường Hoa, Ngũ Chỉ Sơn, Tả Phìn, Tả Van, Thanh Bình and Trung Chải.
History
Ancient petroglyphs. The ancient stone area of Sapa is listed as a tentative site for UNESCO World Heritage nomination.
Sa Pa was a frontier town and capital of the former Sa Pa District in Lào Cai Province in northwestern Vietnam. It was initially inhabited by people of whom nothing is known. Throughout the valley they left hundreds of petroglyphs, mostly composed of lines, which according to experts date back to the 15th century and represent local cadastres. Then came the highland minorities of the Hmong and Yao. The township is one of the main markets in the area, home to different ethnic minority groups such as the Hmong, Dao (Yao), Giáy, Pho Lu and Tày. These are the four main minority groups still present in the Sa Pa district today. The Kinh (lowland Vietnamese) did not originally colonize this highest of the valleys of Việt Nam, which lies in the shadow of Phan-Xi-Pǎng (Fansipan, 3143 m), the highest peak in the country.[3] Sa Pa is also home to more than 200 pieces of boulders with ancient engravings. The "Ancient Stone Carving Area in Sapa" has been on the UNESCO tentative list since 1997.[4]
The Catholic church of Sa Pa, built in stone in 1930
It wasn't until the French landed in the Tonkin Plateau in the late 1880s that Sa Pa, the Hmong village name, with the "S" is pronounced almost as harshly as "Ch" in French, "Sh" in English," S" in standard Vietnamese, so Chapa as the French called it, began to appear on the national map. Near present-day Sa Pa town is "Sa Pả commune", showing the Hmong-language origin of the place name.[a]
Over the next decade, the future Sa Pa municipality site began to welcome visiting military and missionary groups from the Société des Missions Etrangères de Paris (MEP).[6] The French army marched from the Red River delta into the northern mountain regions as part of the "pacification" of Tonkin. In 1894-96 the border between China and Tonkin was formally agreed upon and the area of Sa Pa, just south of this border, was placed under French authority. From 1891, the entire Lào Cai region, including Sa Pa, came under direct colonial military administration in order to limit banditry and political resistance on the sensitive northern frontier.[7]
The first permanent French civilian resident arrived in Sa Pa in 1909. With its attractive continental climate, health authorities believed the site had potential. By 1912, a military sanatorium for sick officers had been erected together with a full-fledged military garrison. Then, starting in the 1920s, some wealthy professionals with sufficient financial capital also had some private villas built nearby.
At the end of World War II, a long period of hostilities began in Tonkin that would last until 1954. In the process, nearly all of the approximately 200 colonial buildings in or around Sa Pa were destroyed, both by Việt Minh sympathizers and by the end of the 1940s or, in the early 1950s, by French air raids. The vast majority of the Viet population fled for their lives and the former township entered a prolonged sleep.
In the early 1960s, thanks to the New Economic Zones migration scheme set up by the new socialist regime, new lowlanders began to migrate to the region.
The brief 1979 occupation of the northern border region by Chinese troops had little impact on the city of Sa Pa, but displaced the Kinh people (lowland Vietnamese) for a month.
In 1993 the last obstacle to Sa Pa's full renaissance as a major tourist destination was removed when the decision was made to fully open the doors to international tourism. Sa Pa is back on the tourist trail again, this time for a new crowd of up-and-coming elite local tourists, as well as international tourists.[8]
Sa Pa is now booming economically, mainly from the thousands of tourists who come each year to trek the hundreds of kilometers of trekking trails between and around the Dao village villages of Ta Van and Ta Phin.
In 2006, the chairman of the Sapa Province People's Committee was elected to the Central Committee of the Communist Party as the youngest member ever (born in 1973).
Geography
Sa Pa District is located in Lào Cai Province in northwest Vietnam, 380 km northwest of Hanoi, near the border with China. The Hoàng Liên Son mountain range dominates the district, which is located east...
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