Sayram lake
| Sayram lake | ||
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| Geographical location | Xinjiang ( PR China ) | |
| Tributaries | Sagakele | |
| Drain | drainless | |
| Location close to the shore | Jinghe , Bortala | |
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| Coordinates | 44 ° 36 ′ N , 81 ° 10 ′ E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 2074.4 m (2011) | |
| surface | 465.2 km² (2011) | |
| length | 30 km | |
| width | 27 km | |
| volume | 21.55 km³ (2011) | |
| Maximum depth | 99 m | |
| Middle deep | 46.4 m | |
| PH value | 8.8 | |
| Catchment area | 1408 km² | |
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| Satellite image of Lake Sayram | ||
The Sayram Lake ( Chinese 塞 里木 湖 , Pinyin Sàilǐmù Hú ) is an outflowless mountain lake in the Mongolian Autonomous District Bortala of the Uyghur Autonomous Region Xinjiang in the People's Republic of China .
The lake is located in the far west of the Borochoro Mountains, a mountain range in the east of the Tian Shans . It is not far from the border with Kazakhstan , about 100 km west of the city of Jinghe . It has an area of 454 km² and is at an altitude of 2073 m .
Sayram Lake is located in the Sayram Hu National Park .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Zeng, H., Wu, J., & Liu, W. (2014). Two-century sedimentary record of heavy metal pollution from Lake Sayram: A deep mountain lake in central Tianshan, China. Quaternary International, 321, 125-131. ( PDF )
- ↑ a b c Cheng, WM, Wang, N., Zhao, SM, Fang, Y., & Zhao, M. (2016). Growth of the Sayram Lake and retreat of its water-supplying glaciers in the Tianshan Mountains from 1972 to 2011. Journal of Arid Land, 8 (1), 13-22. ( PDF )
Web links
Commons : Sayram-See - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
