Potala Palace is about 221.8 kilometers away from Namucuo. Namucuo is located in the Tibetan plateau, is from about 70 million years ago the beginning of the orogenic movement in the Eurasian continental plate and the Indian plate extrusion and uplift products. According to geological survey data and scientific investigation, Namucuo area is Lhasa body, at least 1 billion years ago to the Precambrian crust constitutes the base, after a long time, about the late Jurassic accretion to part of the Qiangtang above the body.
Namucuo is the end of the third century and the beginning of the fourth century, the Himalayan movement depression and the formation of a huge lake basin. Its formation and development by the geological tectonic control, is by the Himalayan movement depression and become, for the fault tectonic lake, and with traces of glacial action. After the Tibetan plateau because of the gradual drying of the climate, Namucuo area is greatly reduced, the existing ancient lake rock line has 8 ~ 10, the highest one from the current lake surface of about 80 meters.
Namucuo, located in the central Tibet Autonomous Region, is the second largest lake in Tibet, but also China's third largest saltwater lake. The lake is 4718 meters above sea level, with an almost rectangular shape, more than 70 kilometers long from east to west and more than 30 kilometers wide from north to south, covering an area of about 1920km?