Hulun Lake | |
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Location | Inner Mongolia (China) |
Coordinates | 48°58′23″N 117°26′08″E / 48.97306°N 117.43556°E |
Primary inflows | Kherlen River, Orshuun Gol |
Primary outflows | Mutnaya Protoka (temporal Argun River−Amur Basin tributary) |
Catchment area | 33,469 km2 (12,922 sq mi)[1] |
Basin countries | China, Mongolia |
Max. length | 90 km (56 mi)[2] |
Max. width | 27 km (17 mi)[2] |
Surface area | 2,339 km2 (903 sq mi) |
Average depth | 5.7 m (19 ft)[1] |
Surface elevation | 539 m (1,768 ft) |
Official name | Dalai Lake National Nature Reserve, Inner Mongolia |
Designated | 11 January 2002 |
Reference no. | 1146[3] |
Hulun Lake (simplified Chinese: 呼伦湖; traditional Chinese: 呼倫湖; pinyin: Hūlún Hú; Mongolian: Хөлөн нуур, romanized: Khölön nuur; lit. 'foot lake') or Dalai Lake[4][5] (Mongolian: Далай нуур, romanized: Dalai nuur; lit. 'ocean lake') is a large lake in the Inner Mongolia region of northern China.
The great basin of the Gobi contains many minor basins, which we are calling "talas," from a Mongol word for an open steppe-country (Fig.3). The following talas may be demonstrated: the Dalai Nor tala, now draining through the Argun river to the Amur; the Iren tala; the Gashuin Nor, or Edsin Gol tala; the Kisin or Shargin tala; the Khara and Dzapkhin, or Kirghiz Nor tala, in which are the cities of Kobdo and Uliassutai; the Tez, or Ubsa Nor tala. Each tala has its own local interior drainage and is bounded by inconspicuous warp divides or by mountain ranges, or both, separating it from neighboring areas of similar habit.
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