Chao Hu
Chao Hu | ||
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Geographical location | Anhui Province , People's Republic of China | |
Drain | Yuxi He → Yangtze River | |
Places on the shore | Chaohu , Hefei | |
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Coordinates | 31 ° 30 ′ N , 117 ° 30 ′ E | |
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surface | 756.2 km² | |
volume | 1.7 km³ | |
scope | 185 km | |
Middle deep | 7.65 m |
The Chao Lake or Chao Hu ( Chinese 巢湖 , Pinyin Cháo Hú ) is a freshwater lake between Chaohu , Hefei , Feidong and Lujiang in the center of the Chinese province of Anhui . It is the largest lake in Anhui and one of the five major freshwater lakes in China.
He is the Tancheng - Lujiang - fault zone 郯城-庐江断裂带 (abbr. Tan-Lu fault 郯庐断裂带 ) that the great in their northern section Tangshan Earthquake in 1976 caused.