Aksai Chin (lake)
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Aksai Chin Aksai Chin Kul |
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| Geographical location | Circle Hotan in the administrative district of Hotan in Xinjiang ( China ) | |
| Tributaries | Aksai | |
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| Coordinates | 35 ° 13 ' N , 79 ° 51' E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 4848 m | |
| surface | 166 km² | |
| length | 19.2 km | |
| width | 13.4 km | |
| Maximum depth | 12.6 m | |
| Middle deep | 7.75 m | |
| Catchment area | 7993 km² | |
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particularities |
outflowless salt lake |
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The Aksai Chin ( Hindi अक्साई चिन झील Aksā'ī cina jhīla , Chinese 阿克赛钦 湖 , Pinyin Ākèsài Qīn Hú ) is an outflowless salt lake in Aksai Chin .
Administratively, the lake in the county is Hotan in the same administrative region Hotan of Xinjiang ( China ).
The 4848 m high Aksai Chin is located on the desert plateau of Aksai Chin. The lake covers an area of 166 km². The endorheic basin of the lake covers 7993 km². It is bounded in the north by the Kunlun Mountains, 50 km away . The lake is almost completely fed by the meltwater from the Kunlun glacier. The glacier area in the catchment area is 769 km² (9.6% of the total catchment area). The most important tributary of the lake is the Aksai River , which has its source in Kunlun northeast of the lake.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d V. H. Phan, RC Lindenbergh, M. Menenti: Geometric Dependency of Tibetan lakes on glacial runoff (PDF (2.2 MB)) Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 17, 4061-4077, 2013.