Chaohu [4] [5] [6] [2] (Chao-hu [7] ; Chinese exercise 巢湖 , pinyin : Cháo Hú [6] ) - a freshwater lake located in the territory of Hefei urban district in the central part of Anhui province People's Republic of China [5] [6] . It is the largest lake in Anhui province and is one of the five largest freshwater lakes in China [3] . At the county level of the administrative-territorial division of the PRC, the water area of Lake Chaohu is divided between the urban county of Chaohu , the district of urban subordination of Baohe and the counties : Lujiang , Faisi and Feidong [8] [9] .
| Lake | |
| Chaohu | |
|---|---|
| Chinese 巢湖 | |
 Satellite image of Chaohu Lake and its surroundings from NASA World Wind | |
| Morphometry | |
| Absolute height | 10 [1] –12 [2] m |
| Area | 756 [3] –820 [1] km² |
| Volume | 1.7 [3] –3.6 [1] km³ |
| Coastline | 185 [3] km |
| Average depth | 7.6 [3] (5 [1] ) m |
| Hydrology | |
| Type of mineralization | fresh [1] |
| Transparency | 0.2 [3] m |
| Swimming pool | |
| Pool area | 10 430 [3] km² |
| Flowing river | Xianheshui |
| Location | |
| A country |
|
| Region | Anhui |
| Area | Hefei |
Description
The area is approximately 756 [3] (820 [1] ) km², the water level and the size of the lake depend significantly on the intensity of inflow from the flowing rivers and weather conditions, increasing during floods and greatly decreasing in the dry season. The average depth of the lake is 7.6 [3] (5 [1] ) m, shallow water is associated with a large amount of sediment brought by the flowing rivers. From the eastern side of the lake flows the Xianheshui River [2] (Yuxi [10] ), through which Chaochu communicates with the Yangtze [1] . There are several islands on the lake, the largest - Laoshan (0.86 km²) [2] .
Ecology
About 5 million people live in the lake area, using it for irrigation, fishing and transport, which in recent years has led to eutrophication and silting of the lake. Due to the rapid economic growth of China, Lake Chaohu is today one of the most polluted lakes in China [10] [3] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Educational complex on the subject “Geography of the countries of the Far East: China, Japan, Korea” . - Novosibirsk: Novosibirsk State University , 2011. - P. 29, 192. Archived June 24, 2016 on the Wayback Machine
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Map sheet H-50-IV . Scale: 1: 200,000 . 1979 edition
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Lake Chaohu . - Information in the electronic directory “Earth Lakes” on the website of the Institute of Lake Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INOZ RAS): limno.org.ru . Date of treatment October 8, 2017. Archived on September 21, 2019.
- ↑ Chaohu // Dictionary of geographical names of foreign countries / resp. ed. A.M. Komkov . - 3rd ed., Revised. and add. - M .: Nedra , 1986.- S. 423.
- ↑ 1 2 China: Geographic map: Scale 1: 6,000,000 / ed. T.P. Filatova . - Roskartografiya, FSUE Omsk Cartographic Factory , 2008. - (Countries of the World “Asia”). - 4500 copies. - ISBN 978-5-9523-0222-8 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 Chaohu // Dictionary of Geographical Names of China: 2: T — I / Compiled by Ya. A. Miropolsky, G. E. Tikhonova. Editor: K. N. Chernozhukov. - M .: Publishing House "Science" , 1984. - S. 708. - 900 copies.
- ↑ A.O. I. Ngan-hoi // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1897. - T. XXa. - S. 779-780.
- ↑ Data obtained using the Google Maps mapping service.
- ↑ Data obtained using the OpenStreetMap mapping service.
- ↑ 1 2 Lake Chao . - Information about the reservoir on the website of the World Lake Database International Lake Environment Committee (ILEC WLDB): wldb.ilec.or.jp (English) . Date of treatment October 8, 2017.