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How about going to Qinghai Lake on May Day? Is it worth going?

The scenery of Qinghai Lake is very beautiful. Not many people go to Qinghai Lake on May 1st, so it is worth visiting.

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.

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 the northwest of Xining, between 99 36 ′ ~10016 ′ east longitude and 36 32 ′ north latitude. The lake is surrounded by four towering mountains.

Datong Mountain is 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.

The lake is rich in one of the five famous fish in China-naked carp (commonly known as Huangyu), hard-spined loach and long-headed loach in Qinghai Lake. The average annual yield of naked carp in Qinghai is 5 165 tons, 1949 ~ 1985 * * production19180 tons.

With the passage of time and the decrease of resources, the output of naked carp is decreasing year by year. Naked carp swim back to the source river from June to July every year to lay eggs, which provides rich food conditions for fish-eating birds. 1964, the state listed Qinghai Lake as a protected object, and Qinghai naked carp as an important and precious aquatic economic animal.