Where is Cangshan Erhai Lake?

Cangshan Erhai National Nature Reserve is located in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province.

It consists of Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake, spanning Dali, Erhai Lake, Yangbi and other cities and counties, with a total area of 79,700 hectares. 1993 was upgraded to a national nature reserve with an area of 79,700 hectares. Cangshan * * * has 19 towering peaks, the top of which is covered with snow all year round, which is called "No snow on a hot day". Erhai Lake is known as the "Pearl of the Plateau". Looking down from the air, Erhai Lake is like a crescent moon, lying quietly between Cangshan Mountain and Dali Bazi.

Dali Cangshan Erhai National Nature Reserve belongs to the category of natural ecosystem and natural heritage, including forest ecosystem, inland wetland and water ecosystem and geological heritage. It is a multi-level, multi-functional and large-capacity comprehensive nature reserve. The purpose is to protect Cangshan's ancient glacier relics, natural landscape of plateau lakes, endemic fish such as bowfish, places of interest and cold mountain forests.

Geomorphology of Cangshan Erhai National Nature Reserve

Cangshan Erhai Lake is located in the strongest radial structural belt in China, that is, the eastern edge of the Kangzang zigzag structural fold belt. This is a huge deep fault. The crust rises in the west and falls in the east. Erhai fault is the dividing line between the central Yunnan plateau and Hengduan mountain area. In the process of strong uplift, the strata collapsed alternately, and the uplift block formed Cangshan fault block mountain, the subsidence block became fault basin, and the accumulated water became Erhai Lake. It is a typical inland fault basin.

Cangshan starts from Shimonoseki in the south and reaches Dengchuan Town in Eryuan County in the north. It stretches for 45 kilometers from north to south and is about 10 kilometers wide from east to west. There are 19 peaks in Cangshan Mountain. The highest peak, Malong Peak, is 4 122 meters above sea level, with a relative elevation difference of 2,562 meters from Yangbi Valley on the west slope and 2 156 meters from Dongpo Dali Basin.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Cangshan Erhai National Nature Reserve.