Yamzhog Yumco

Yamzhog Yumco, ; Yamdrok Tso, Yamzho Yumco, Yardrog Yutsho
	Yamzhog Yumco
Geographical location	Nagarzê County in Shannan Administrative Region in Tibet ( PR China )
Drain	→ Yarlung Tsangpo
	Data
Coordinates	28 ° 56 ' N , 90 ° 41' E Coordinates: 28 ° 56 ' N , 90 ° 41' E
Altitude above sea level	4440 m
surface	640 km²
Catchment area	9940 km²
particularities	pumped storage power plant
	Satellite image: Yamzhog Yumco in the picture above, Puma Yumco lake below

Tibetan name
Tibetan script : ཡར་ འབྲོག་ གཡུ་ མཚོ །
Wylie transliteration : yar 'brog g.yu mtsho
Official transcription of the PRCh : Yamzhog Yumco
THDL transcription : Yamdrok Yumtso
Other spellings: Yamdrok Yutso, Yamdrok Tso, Yamdrok Tsho, Yamdok, Yar-drok etc.
Chinese name
Traditional : 羊卓雍錯
Simplified : 羊卓雍错
Pinyin : Yángzhuó Yōngcuò

The Yamzhog Yumco ( Yamdrok Tso or Yardrog Yutsho , Tibetan ཡར་ འབྲོག་ གཡུ་ མཚོ Wylie yar 'brog gyu mtsho ) is a lake in county Nagarze in the district of Shannan of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China .

It is 4440 m above sea level, has an area of 640 square kilometers and is 30 to 40 meters deep; its extension is around 130 kilometers from east to west and around 70 kilometers from north to south. The shore of the lake is very indented and there are around a dozen islands in the lake; the largest (Seduocun 色多村) has an area of around 3 square kilometers. The Yamzhog Yumco freezes over in winter. The name of the lake means "green jade lake of the upper Alm".

The lake is accessible to traffic via a well-developed junction of the Friendship Highway .

Use of hydropower

To the north of the lake is the largest hydroelectric power plant in Tibet. (26.264 ° N; 90.606 ° E) Four 6 km long tunnels lead from the lake to the power station, which is located on Yarlung Tsangpo . To prevent the lake level from falling permanently, some of the water is pumped back into the lake by the pumped storage power plant . 29.264082 90.606491 3620

Web links

Commons : Yamzhog Yumco - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Lake Yamdrok - Travel Guide

Nam Co and Yamzhog Yumco Radio China International , February 4, 2005.
Detailed information about the Yamdrok Lake (German)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c 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.
↑ Guójiā cèhuìjú dìmíng yánjiūsuǒ 国家测绘局地名研究所 : Xīzàng dìmíng 西藏地名 / bod ljongs sa ming བོད་ ལྗོངས་ ས་ མིང ། ( Tibetan place names ; Beijing, Zhōngguó Zàngxué chūbǎnshè 中国藏学出版社 1995), ISBN 7-80057-284-6 , p. 532.
↑ Petra Seibert, Lorne Stockman: The Yamdrok Tso Hydropower Plant in Tibet: A Multi-facetted and Highly Controversial Project ( Memento from August 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) ( University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna )

and display information about the image

The Yamzhog Yumco, taken from the Friendship Road between Lhasa and Gyangzê

[hess-1] 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.

[2] Guójiā cèhuìjú dìmíng yánjiūsuǒ 国家测绘局地名研究所 : Xīzàng dìmíng 西藏地名 / bod ljongs sa ming བོད་ ལྗོངས་ ས་ མིང ། ( Tibetan place names ; Beijing, Zhōngguó Zàngxué chūbǎnshè 中国藏学出版社 1995), ISBN 7-80057-284-6 , p. 532.

[3] Petra Seibert, Lorne Stockman: The Yamdrok Tso Hydropower Plant in Tibet: A Multi-facetted and Highly Controversial Project ( Memento from August 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) ( University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna )