What are the Five Lakes and which provinces are they located in?

Poyang Lake: Located in the north of Jiangxi Province.

Dongting Lake: Located in the north of Hunan, south of Jingjiang reach in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River.

Taihu Lake: Located in the south of Jiangsu Province, in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

Hongze Lake: Located in the lower reaches of Huaihe River in the west of Jiangsu Province.

Chaohu Lake: Located in Hefei City, Anhui Province.

1, Poyang Lake

(1) Poyang Lake is the largest freshwater lake in China, located in the north of Jiangxi Province, covering an area of 3,960 square kilometers, and is a national AAAAA-level tourist attraction. Northwest of the lake is Lushan Mountain, a summer resort. Poyang Lake scenic spot mainly refers to the whole of scenic spots and nature reserves in the lake area. There are 4/kloc-0 islands and 7 nature reserves in the lake area. There are more than 300 species of migratory birds in Poyang Lake, with nearly one million birds, including more than 50 species of rare birds. It is the largest bird sanctuary in the world. There are about 4000 white cranes in the world. 90% of them wintered in Poyang Lake. Poyang Lake is a world of white cranes and a paradise for waterfowl.

(2) Poyang Lake is an important habitat and germplasm resource pool of Yangtze finless porpoise, with stable population and reasonable population structure, belonging to Yangtze finless porpoise. By the end of 20 16, there were about 450 finless porpoises in Poyang Lake, which was five times that in Dongting Lake and half that in China.

2. Dongting Lake

(1) Dongting Lake, formerly known as Yunmeng, Jiujiang and Chonghu, is located on the south bank of Jingjiang River in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, spanning Yueyang, Guluo, Xiangyin, Wangcheng, Yiyang, Yuanjiang, Hanshou, Changde, Jinshi, Anxiang and Nanxian counties and cities. The name of Dongting Lake began in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and it was named after Dongting Mountain (now Junshan Mountain) in the lake. ? Dongting Lake receives water from Songzi, Taiping, ouchi and Diaoxian counties of the Yangtze River, connects with four small tributaries of Hunan, Zi, Yuan and Li in the south and west, and flows into the Yangtze River from Chenglingji, Yueyang City.

(2) Dongting Lake was called "Eight Hundred Li Dongting Lake" in ancient times. At the end of 1990s, it was estimated by the water conservancy department that there was an area of 2,579.2 square kilometers (2,740 square kilometers). However, it also has a flood discharge area of 1.300 square kilometers in the four major rivers of Hunan, Zi, Yuan and Li and the "four mouths of the Yangtze River" (say 1.878 square kilometers? )。 Add up to 3879.2 square kilometers. The circumference of the lake basin is 803.2 kilometers, with a total volume of 22 billion cubic meters, including 65.438+078 billion cubic meters of natural lakes and 4.2 billion cubic meters of rivers.

3. Taihu Lake

Taihu Lake, located in the southern edge of the Yangtze River Delta, was called Zhenze and Juqu in ancient times, and also called Wuhu and Lize. It is one of the five largest freshwater lakes in China, with a boundary of 30 55' 40 "~ 365 438+0 32' 58" north latitude and 65 438+065 438+09 52' 32 "~ 65 438 east longitude. Taihu Lake covers an area of 2,427.8 square kilometers, with a water area of 2,338.1square kilometer and a coastline of 393.2 kilometers. Its west and southwest are hills and mountains, and its east is dominated by plains and water networks.

4. Lake Huze

Hongze Lake, the fourth largest freshwater lake in China. Located in the lower reaches of Huaihe River in the west of Jiangsu, on the west side of the central part of Subei Plain, in Huai 'an and Suqian, with a geographical location of 33? 06′—33? 40', east longitude 1 18? 10′— 1 18? 52' is the junction of the middle and lower reaches of the Huaihe River. Originally a shallow lake group, it was called Fuling Lake in ancient times. After the Han Dynasty, it was called Broken Kettle Pond, which was called Hongzepu in Sui Dynasty and Hongzehu in Tang Dynasty. After 1 128, the Yellow River south migrated through Surabaya to seize the lower reaches of the Huaihe River and enter the waters below Huaiyin. The Huaihe River lost its access to the sea and stored water in the east of Xuyi, and the original small lake was expanded into Hongze Lake.

5.chaohu lake

Chaohu, located in the south of Hefei, the provincial capital, is a county-level city managed by Hefei. Its southwest coastal Chaohu Lake borders Feidong, Quanjiao, Hanshan, Lujiang and Wuwei respectively. By 20 15, the total population will be 920,000 and the area will be 2,046 square kilometers? . Chaohu Lake has a long history and outstanding people. It was called "Juchao" and "Southern Dynasties" in ancient times, and it is precisely for this reason that "Xia Jie made soup and put it into the Southern Dynasties", with a written record of more than 3,000 years. The name of Chaohu Lake began in the Qin Dynasty. Chaohu County was established in the Tang Dynasty, and Chaohu City was established as the county level in 1984. On July 9, 1999 was upgraded to a prefecture-level city and renamed Juchao District, where the Chaohu Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government are located. 2011August, the prefecture-level Chaohu city was abolished and the county-level Chaohu city was established.