Dochen Tso

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Dochen Tso
Duoqing Cuo
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Dochen Tso
Location Yadong County, Shigatse Prefecture, Tibet, China
Coordinates 28°8′57″N89°21′37″E / 28.14917°N 89.36028°E / 28.14917; 89.36028 Coordinates: 28°8′57″N89°21′37″E / 28.14917°N 89.36028°E / 28.14917; 89.36028
Native nameམདོ་ཆེན་མཚོ (Standard Tibetan)
Surface area62.67 km2 (24.20 sq mi)
Surface elevation4,472 m (14,672 ft)
FrozenWinter

Dochen Tso (Tibetan : མདོ་ཆེན་མཚོ, Wylie : mdo chen mtsho, THL : do chen tso) [1] [2] or Duoqing Cuo (Chinese :多庆错; pinyin :duōqìng cuò) is a high-altitude lake in Yadong County in the Tibet region of China. [3]

Location

The lake in located at 4,472 m (14,672 ft) above sea level, [4] about 240 kilometers southwest of the regional capital Lhasa. The rivers Nimu Maqu and Qionggui Zangbu are the primary sources of water for the lake, and the lake's water is discharged into Galacuo, which is located 9 km further to the north. [5] [6]

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References

  1. ↑ Dorje, Gyurme (1999), Footprint Tibet Handbook with Bhutan (2nd ed.), Bath: Footprint Handbooks, p. 310, ISBN   0-8442-2190-2 – via archive.org
  2. ↑ "Geographical names of Tibet AR (China): Xigazê Prefecture-Level City". KNAB Place Name Database. Institute of the Estonian Language. 2018-06-03.
  3. ↑ "Mindat.org". www.mindat.org. Retrieved 2022-09-17.
  4. ↑ "Duoqing Cuo lake, Tibet Autonomous Region, China". cn.geoview.info. Retrieved 2022-09-17.
  5. ↑ 西藏统计年鉴 (in Chinese). 中国统计出版社. 2002. ISBN   978-7-5037-3773-2.
  6. ↑ 西藏统计年鉴/2007(总第19期)/: [中英文本] (in Chinese). 中国统计出版社. 2007. ISBN   978-7-5037-5151-6.


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