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Qinghai Lake is the largest lake in China. Located in an endorheic basin in Qinghai Province , to which it gave its name, Qinghai Lake is classified as an alkaline salt lake . The lake has fluctuated in size, shrinking over much of the 20th century but increasing since 2004.
The Qinghai Lake has a salinity of about 14 parts per thousand, meaning that the water is brackish. [3] From April to July adults of the lake population migrate 40–50 km (25–31 mi) to nearby freshwater streams to spawn. These include the Harge, Goncha, Chang Ji, and Buha rivers. [9]
Qinghai Lake (青海湖; qīnghǎi hú) is another tourist attraction, albeit further from Xining than Kumbum Monastery (Ta'er Si). The lake is the largest saltwater lake in China, and is also located on the "Roof of the World", the Tibetan Plateau. The lake itself lies at 3,600 m elevation.
English Name Chinese Name Province Location Area (Square Kilometer) Current Condition Qarhan Playa: 察尔汗干盐湖: Qinghai: 5856: Divided into smaller salt lakes
North Hulsan Lake: Qinghai: 0–90.4 Saline Pangong Tso: Tibet: 700 Saline Poyang Lake: Jiangxi: 3206.98 Fresh Qiandao Lake: Zhejiang: 573 Fresh Qinghai Lake (Koko Nor) Qinghai: 4340 Saline Siling Lake: Tibet: 1865 Saline South Lake: Hubei: 5 Saline South Dongting Lake: Hunan: Fresh South Hulsan Lake (Nanhuobuxun) Qinghai: 33.41 Saline Suli ...
Qinghai Lake, the West Sea. The original Four Seas were a metaphor for the borders of pre-Han dynasty China. [1] Only two of the Four Seas were tied to real locations, the East Sea with the East China Sea and the South Sea with the South China Sea. [3] During the Han dynasty, wars with the Xiongnu brought them north to Lake Baikal. They ...
The largest lake is Qinghai Lake, and the prefecture is traversed by the Yellow River. Most of the land, 78.67%, is natural grassland used for grazing. 2.19% is cultivated for agriculture, 4.14% is forest, 6.69% is covered by water and rivers, 0.53% by residential area and industry and the remaining 7.7% consists of barren areas such as ...
The largest lake in northern China, although growing urban and agricultural water use after 1950 reduced its size from more than 1000 km 2 to almost nothing in the 1980s. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] It is presently composed of 143 smaller lakes around 366 km 2 and is used for nature tourism , [ 33 ] but its size is now maintained by unsustainable use of ...