Dianchi Lake, also known as Kunming Lake, Kunming Pool, South Yunnan Ze and Yunnan Sea. In the southwest of Kunming, there are rivers such as Panlong River. Lake elevation 1886 meters, covering an area of 330 square kilometers. It is the largest freshwater lake in Yunnan Province and is known as the Pearl of the Plateau. The average water depth is 5 meters and the deepest is 8 meters. The lake is discharged from the southwest Haikou and named Tanglangchuan, which is the source of Pudu River, a tributary of Jinsha River, the main stream of the upper Yangtze River.
2.Erhai Lake
Erhai Lake, once called Ye Yuze, Kunmichuan, Xi 'er River and Xi 'er River in ancient literature, is located in the suburb of Dali, Yunnan Province, and is the second largest freshwater lake in Yunnan Province. Erhai Lake starts from Eryuan in the north, with a length of about 42.58 kilometers, the widest from east to west of 9.0 kilometers, a lake area of 256.5 square kilometers, an average lake depth of 10 meters and a maximum lake depth of 20 meters.
3. Fuxian Lake
Fuxian Lake, crystal clear, was called "a large piece of glass" by the ancients. It is located between Jiangchuan District, Chengjiang County and Huaning County in Yuxi City, and the Hubei end is 52 kilometers away from Kunming. It is an important leisure, tourism and holiday destination in the province. Fuxian Lake is the largest water storage lake, the largest plateau deep-water lake and the second deepest fresh water lake in China. It belongs to Nanpanjiang River system, with a gourd-shaped north-south trend and a runoff area of 1053km2 (including 378km2 of Xingyun Lake).
4. Cheng Hai
Chenghai, known as He Cheng in ancient times, also known as Black Wuhai, is located in the middle of Yongsheng County, Yunnan Province. It is an oval lake, long from north to south and narrow from east to west. Its geographical coordinates are10038' ~10041'east longitude and 2617' ~ 26 28' north latitude, and the lake surface is higher than the sea level. With an area of 3 18.3 square kilometers and an average depth of 24.98 meters, it is the second largest freshwater lake in western Yunnan, one of the nine plateau lakes in Yunnan Province, and one of the three lakes where spirulina naturally grows in the world.
5. Lugu Lake
Lugu Lake, commonly known as Zuosuohai, was called Ledehai and Lugu Lake in ancient times. In Naxi Mosuo language, "road" means ravine, and "valley" means lake in ravine. Located at the junction of Yanyuan County, Sichuan Province and ninglang county, Yunnan Province, the lake is under the jurisdiction of Sichuan and Yunnan, with Luguhu Town (formerly Zuosuo District) in Yanyuan County in the east and Yongning Township in ninglang county in the west.
6. Qilu Lake
Qilu Lake was called "Haihe River" in Tang Dynasty, and later called "Tonghu Lake". Located in Tonghai County, Yunnan Province. Named after the bank of Qilu Mountain (also known as Xiushan). It is also called Tonghai because it is 5 kilometers south of Tonghai County 1.5. It belongs to Nanpanjiang River system.
Qilu Lake is a rift lake with east-west axis, water level1.796.62m, lake surface area of 36.73km2, coastline length of 45km, lake length1.3.5km, average width of 2.72km, maximum width of 5.2km and volume1.45m3. ..
7. Xingyun Lake
Xingyun Lake is located at the north of Jiangchuan County 1 km, separated from Fuxian Lake by a mountain and connected by a river, commonly known as Jiang Chuanhai. The elevation of the lake is 1 m higher than that of Fuxian Lake, with a length of10.5km in the north, a width of 3.8km from east to west, a narrowest point of 2.3km, a coastline of 36.3km and a total area of 34.7 1 km2. The average water depth is 7 meters. The maximum depth is10m, and the transparency is about1.5m..
8. Yang Zonghai
Yangzonghai is one of the nine plateau lakes in Yunnan, spanning Chengjiang, Chenggong and Yiliang. Located at east longitude 102 5 '- 103 02', north latitude 24 51'-24 58', 36 kilometers away from Kunming, it belongs to Nanpanjiang River system in the Pearl River Basin. Yangzonghai is spindle-shaped, with a basin area of 252.7 square meters, a lake surface area of 3 1. 1 square kilometer, a water level elevation of 1.770.46 meters, an average water depth of 20 meters and a total water storage capacity of 604 million cubic meters.
9. Yilong Lake
Yilong Lake is one of the nine plateau lakes in Yunnan Province, the mother lake of Shiping people and a provincial-level scenic spot. In midsummer, the lotus flowers in the lake are competing to open, and the fragrance is overflowing, attracting many tourists to visit. Lotus has become an indispensable and important tourist resource in Shiping County.
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Yunnan, referred to as Yun (Yunnan) for short, is located in the southwest border of China. The Tropic of Cancer runs through the southern part of Yunnan Province, belonging to low latitude inland areas, bordering Guizhou and Guangxi in the east, Sichuan in the north, Tibet in the northwest, Myanmar in the west and Laos and Vietnam in the south. There are 25 border counties in Yunnan bordering Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam, with a border of 4,060 kilometers.
There are more than 40 plateau lakes in the province, most of which are rift lakes, which are generally distributed in the Yuanjiang River basin and south of Dongyunling Mountain range, and most of them are in plateau areas. The water area of the lake is about 1 100 square kilometers, accounting for 0.28% of the total area of the province, and the total storage capacity is about14801900 million cubic meters. Among the lakes, Dianchi Lake has the largest area, accounting for 306.3 square kilometers. Followed by Erhai Lake, covering an area of about 250 square kilometers; The depth of Fuxian Lake ranks first in the province, with the deepest point151.5m; Lugu Lake is the second with the deepest point of 73.2 meters.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-Yunnan