Which city is Lugu Lake located in?

Lugu Lake is located between Yanyuan County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province and Ninglang Yi Autonomous County, Lijiang City, Yunnan Province.

Lugu Lake is a plateau fault dissolution subsidence lake. It belongs to the Litang River water system, a tributary of the Jinsha River, a tributary of the Yalong River in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. It is the upper source of the Xiaojin River and flows to the Jinsha River through the Yalong River.

The Lugu Lake Basin Area is located in the Yongning Basin and is the third largest deep-water lake in China. There is a small island in the lake. The Mosuo, Yi and Pumi people mainly live around Lugu Lake. There are 7 Mongolian ethnic groups living along the coast, about 13,000 people. The beautiful natural environment and unique ethnic customs make this place a famous tourist attraction. In the Lugu Lake area, there are Lijiang Lugu Lake Mosuo Cultural Tourism Area and Liangshan Prefecture Lugu Lake Tourism Scenic Area.

The national culture of Lugu Lake

Many ethnic groups live on the shores of Lugu Lake, mainly Mongolian. The Mosuo people have their own mother tongue, Mosuo, which belongs to the Tibeto-Burman language family of the Sino-Tibetan language family. The Yi branch of the language family. It is similar to the Mongolian language in other areas of Yanyuan County, but does not have its own script. Its culture is Daba culture and they believe in Tibetan Buddhism. The Mosuo people are the only matrilineal clan society that still exists in China. They practice a "walking marriage" system in which "men do not marry and women do not marry". The man and woman in a walking marriage are called "Azhu" and "Axia" respectively, so it is called "Axia marriage".

There are about 13,000 Mongolians and 7 other ethnic groups, including Yi, Han, Naxi, Tibetan, Pumi, Bai and Zhuang, living along the coast of Lugu Lake, including about 6,000 Mongolians (Moguls along the coast of Lugu Lake in Sichuan). There are more than 5,000 Suo people in Yunnan and Sichuan, almost 3,000 each). The scenic area has formed a distinctive natural landscape and cultural landscape with its typical natural scenery of plateau lakes and unique Mosuo matrilineal ethnic culture.

The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia-Lugu Lake