Guchin-Us Soum
Гучин-Ус сум
ᠭᠤᠴᠢᠨᠤᠰᠤᠰᠤᠮᠤ
District
General view of Arguut
General view of Arguut
CountryMongolia
ProvinceÖvörkhangai Province
Time zoneUTC+8 (UTC + 8)
Center of Arguut
Rock paintings

Guchin-Us (Mongolian: Гучин-Ус, meaning is Thirty water) is a soum (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 soum, 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 Province Soums Statistics, 2009
  2. Werner Elstner: Mongolei, p.162. Berlin 1993

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


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