What are the five salt lakes in China?

1. Yang Zhuo Yongcuo: Yang Zhuo Yongcuo, referred to as Yanghu for short, is one of the three sacred lakes in Tibet. It is located in Langkazi County, Shannan Prefecture, Tibet, about 70 kilometers southwest of Lhasa, with an area of 675 square kilometers, an altitude of 444 1 m and an east-west length of 130 km.

2. Ulungu Lake: Ulungu Lake, also known as Bulento Sea, Dahaizi and Fuhai, is located in Fuhai County, Altay Prefecture, Xinjiang, China, and is the second largest fishery base in Xinjiang after Bosten Lake. The main water source of the lake comes from the Ulungu River, with an average depth of eight meters and an area of 753 square kilometers.

3. Namtso: Located in central Xizang Autonomous Region, it is the second largest lake in Tibet and the third largest saltwater lake in China. The elevation of the lake is 47 18m, almost rectangular, with a length of more than 70km from east to west and a width of more than 30km from north to south, with an area of 1920 km2. The deepest part of Namtso exceeds 120m, with a storage capacity of 70.

4. Selinchuo: Selinchuo, which means "Devil's Lake Reflected by Weiguang" in Tibetan, was once called Qilin Lake and Selindongcuo. It is the largest lake in Tibet and the second largest saltwater lake in China. Selinchuo is located at the junction of Shenzhan, Bango and Nima counties in Xizang Autonomous Region, at the northern foot of Gangdise Mountain and north of Shenzhan County, with an altitude of 45.5 kilometers and a long axis from east to west, with a total length of 77 meters.

5. Qinghai Lake: Qinghai Lake, also known as "Cuowenbu", which means "blue sea" in Tibetan, is located in the Qinghai Lake Basin in the northwest of Qinghai Province. It is the largest inland lake in China and the largest saltwater lake in China! Qinghai Lake covers an area of 4,400 square kilometers, with a water volume of 73.9 billion cubic meters, the longest is about 104 kilometers, the widest is about 62 kilometers, and the maximum water depth is 3 1.4 meters.

The extended information of Qinghai Lake is called "Cuowenbu" (meaning "blue sea") in Tibetan. Located in the northeast of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Qinghai Province, it is the largest inland lake and saltwater lake in China. It is formed by the fault subsidence among Datong Mountain, Sun Moon Mountain and Nanshan Mountain in Qilian Mountain and Qinghai Province.

20 12 On July 30th, the latest remote sensing monitoring results of Qinghai Institute of Meteorological Science showed that the area of Qinghai Lake continued to increase for 8 years.

2014101at 9: 50 on October 20, a spectacular scene of "dragon sucking water" appeared on the north side of Haixin Mountain in Qinghai Lake.

Formation reason: The structural faults in Qinghai Lake make the lake depressed, and the edge of the lake basin is mostly connected with the surrounding mountains by faults. In the early days of the lake's formation, it was originally a large freshwater lake, which was connected with the Yellow River system 200-200 million years ago. At that time, the climate was mild and rainy, and the lake was discharged into the Yellow River through the Daotang River in the southeast, which was an outflow lake.

Up to 6,543,800+300,000 years ago, due to neotectonic movement, the surrounding mountains rose strongly. Since the end of Pliocene, Sun Moon Mountain and Bison Mountain in the east of the lake have risen rapidly, blocking the Daotang River that has been injected into the Yellow River, forcing it to flow into Qinghai Lake from east to west, resulting in Gahai Lake and Erhai Lake, which are further divided into sub-lakes such as Haiyan Lake and Shadao Lake.

Geographical environment: Qinghai Lake is 105km long, 63km wide and 3 196m above sea level. It is the largest inland lake and saltwater lake in China, located in the northeast of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and northwest of Xining, between 99 36 ′ ~10016 ′ east longitude and 36 ′ north latitude.

The lake is surrounded by four towering mountains: Datong Mountain in the north, Sun Moon Mountain in the east, Nanshan Mountain in Qinghai in the south and Rubber Mountain in the west. These four mountains are all between 3600 and 5000 meters above sea level. Qinghai Lake covers an area of 4,456 square kilometers and has a circumference of more than 360 kilometers, which is more than twice that of the famous Taihu Lake. The lake is long from east to west, narrow from north to south and slightly oval.

The average horizontal depth of Qinghai Lake is about 2 1 m, the maximum water depth is 32.8 meters, the water storage capacity is 654.38+005 million cubic meters, and the lake surface is 3260 meters above sea level. It's about 200 kilometers from Xining. There are nearly 30 rivers in the lake area. On the east bank of the lake, there are two sub-lakes, one is Gahai, with an area of 48 square kilometers and salt water; An 'erhai Lake, with an area of 8 square kilometers, is fresh water.

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Qinghai Lake (Qinghai Province)-Baidu Encyclopedia